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Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists

  • More F&F guns discovered at Mexican crime scenes

    Fox News reports that 21 more crime scenes in Mexico were found to have involved guns that the BATFE allowed across the border;

    “The Justice Department has been less than forthcoming since day one, so the revisions here are hardly surprising, and the numbers will likely rise until the more than 1,000 guns that were allowed to fall into the hands of bad guys are recovered — most likely years down the road,” Grassley said in a statement released Thursday.

    “What we’re still waiting for are the answers to the other questions the Attorney General failed to answer per our agreement. The cooperation of the Attorney General and his staff is needed if we’re ever going to get to the bottom of this disastrous policy and help the ATF and the department move forward.”

    Meanwhile some dunce named James Verini at Foreign Policy magazine is trying to tell us that we should be grateful for the failed operation;

    Whatever its flaws, the program marked a major and welcome shift in the federal government’s attempts to combat border gun-trafficking — a fact not even its creators are willing to admit to now.

    Really? Whatever it’s flaws? Flaws like the death of one American law enforcement officer and countless innocent Mexicans? Flaws like thousands of weapons in the hands of criminals with an assist from the US Federal government? Flaws like the erosion of our rights to protect ourselves from those same criminals that the BATFE helped to arm?

    Thanks to ROS for FP link.

  • Gun grabbing in NC

    ROS sends us a link from the Charlotte Gun Rights Examiner which reports that the North Carolina governor has suspended gun rights in the face of the impending Hurricane Irene;

    Yesterday, North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue signed Executive Order No. 62, declaring a State of Emergency in advance of Hurricane Earle. In doing so, Perdue suspended the right of state residents to use or carry firearms outside their premises.

    So when North Carolina is going to most need armed, law-abiding citizens to maintain law and order in the State, they’re instead disarming it’s citizens. So criminals know that anyone not on their own property are unarmed.

  • More “Fast and Furious” weapons found at violent crime scenes

    According to the Washington Times the Justice Department admitted that at least a dozen more weapons that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) allowed to transfer to illegal users have been found to be involved in violent crimes across the Southwest US;

    In a letter to Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the committee’s ranking Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the Justice Department confirmed that the illegally purchased weapons recently were found at the sites of at least 11 violent crimes.

    The department did not specifically identify any of the locations, but congressional sources and others said the weapons were located at crime sites in Arizona and Texas. More than 40 weapons, the sources said, were recovered near El Paso, Texas, alone, all of which were traced back to the Fast and Furious operation.

    Gun owners and gun dealers have been set up by the government to take the fall for their incompetent handling of the illegal weapons trade.

    The BATFE hasn’t been able to account for more than a thousand of the weapons;

    Asked how many guns from all the suspects in the Fast and Furious operation had not been recovered, the department wrote that “the total number of firearms purchased by all of the suspects [indicted and unindicted] after they were entered in this investigation that have not yet been recovered and traced in Mexico or the U.S. is one thousand forty-eight [1,048].”

    Feel safer?

  • Shrinking The Gene Pool – Sorta?

    Okay, this is via Drudge so you’ve all probably seen it, but I needed a laugh…
    Police urge holster use after man shoots his own penis

    As Chandler residents Joshua Seto, 27, and his fiancée, Cara Christopher, walked over to a Fry’s Food Store for refreshments, he tried securing her pink handgun in the front waistband of his pants.

    The gun fired, striking Seto’s penis and continuing through his left thigh. The bleeding started immediately and was heavy, according to police dispatch recordings released Sunday.

    “He is still conscious, there is just a lot of blood,” Christopher , 26, told 9-1-1 operators and dispatchers.

    I’m sincerely NOT laughing at this guy’s pain and suffering. It’s just the images that flashed thru MY mind that cracked me up. Pink pistol – the look on his face just before the pain hit – the look on his face when he realized just where he’d been hit, I could go on… For some reason I kept thinking of The Three Stooges?

    As usual with a Geezer post; YMMV.

    ETA: An accidental discharge simply ain’t as rare as we ALL would like to think.  I’ve been handling firearms since I was about 10 or so. I’ve had some great teachers over the years and am careful enough to be annoying, but Murphy’s Law says I will have an AD sooner or later.  Exit question: Ever been to a range where someone swept you with an ’empty’ gun?

  • HuffPo: Ruger is the mass-murderer

    Josh Sugarmann, the executive director of the Violence Policy Center writes in the Huffington Post that it was the Sturm, Ruger & Company that has been committing mass murders, most recently in Norway;

    The attack in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik, apparently involving a Ruger Mini-14 assault rifle, is only the most horrific of the mass shootings involving the company’s products.

    Founded in 1949, the “corporate motto” of Sturm, Ruger & Co. is “Arms Makers for Responsible Citizens.” But Sturm, Ruger firearms are also often found in the hands of mass shooters: last year’s attack at a Connecticut beer distributor, leaving eight victims dead and two wounded; the 1999 shooting at Wedgewood Baptist Church in Texas, leaving seven victims dead and seven wounded; Oregon’s Thurston High School in 1998, leaving four dead and 22 wounded; the 1993 Long Island Railroad shooting, leaving six dead and 19 wounded; the 1991 Luby’s massacre, leaving 23 victims dead and 20 wounded; and, a 1987 shootout at a Florida shopping center, leaving six dead, including two police officers.

    Ya know, that’s funny because I have a Ruger Mini-14, with several high capacity magazines. I bought the rifle in 1984, and to the best of my knowledge, it’s never shot anyone. I also have three Ruger handguns, none of them have ever shot at anyone either. So, somehow, I must’ve got the duds – the weapons that don’t work because they haven’t shot anyone like Ruger apparently designed and programmed the guns to do.

    If you go to Violence Policy Center’s website, they also have a report that tells how mass murderers prefer Glocks (.pdf). Oh, goodness, I own a Glock that hasn’t shot anyone, either. What are the odds that I would have five guns all known for committing mass murders and none of mine have shot even a single person in almost thirty years in my possession? I even owned the Mini-14 though the “scary-looking rifle ban” of the ’90s and it didn’t even point itself at anyone. And it has a pistol grip AND a flash suppressor!!!

  • Anders Behring Breivik

    So this weirdo, Anders Behring Breivik, has taken over the news cycle since yesterday and at last count cost 91 92 people their lives and several injured. That’s him in the picture above sent to me by Scott who says it a US Marine uniform and the picture was in his 1500 page word manifesto. I see a Bronze Star, Purple Heart, South West Asia Theater medal, a Valorous Unit Citation, Meritorious Unit Citation and I think there’s a Vietnam Medal in there, too.

    At Weaselzippers, they say he considered himself a “Marxist hunter” This is supposedly the video he put on the internet along with the 1500 page word manifesto about how he didn’t like the way the world was changing around him.

    If that is his video, I think it’s a little strange how it’s all in English, as if he thought all of us Englich speakers would stand behind him or something.

    I guess he spent an hour and a half blasting people, and not the little brown people he claims his whole demonstration was all aboute. At Stars & Stripes they intimate that SWAT helped him in his endeavor to kill copious numbers of innocent people because they decided to drive to the scene instead of taking their helicopter. I guess he surrendered as soon as the police confronted him…too bad they couldn’t have done that sooner.

    As much as you believe Wikipedia, the gun laws in Norway are fairly restrictive. You have to have a reason like hunting or sporting to own a weapon. Self-defense isn’t an approved reason to on a weapon in Norway. And you have to have clean police record to get a permit and the police are allowed to search your house to insure you have your weapons stored properly – after they give you at least 48 hours notice that they’re on their way.

    The last line of the Wikipedia entry might change in the near future;

    There is no apparent public desire to introduce a concealed carry permit at this point in time, and there is no such license available to civilians.

    UK’s Daily Mail takes advantage of this opportunity to take pot shots at Norway’s gun laws;

    The fact that Breivik was able to perpetrate this monstrous deed is partly a reflection of the extremely liberal gun laws that operate in Scandinavia.

    We can probably expect the same blather to come from the US press.

  • DoJ’s new rule ignores their culpability

    Old trooper sends a link to a Fox News article about the Justice Department’s new rule to burden gun retailers with record keeping and reporting to the government about frequent buyers of scary looking guns, while ignoring their own culpability in the “Fast and Furious” project. The Brady Campaign likes it, so you know you won’t;

    “This new reporting rule will give law enforcement new capacity to interdict these deadly guns before they can be used against Mexican police and citizens.”

    But the National Rifle Association (NRA) said it plans to sue the administration over the rule.

    “This is a blatant effort by the Obama administration and ATF to divert focus of Congress and the general public from their gross incompetence in the Fast and Furious scandal,” NRA executive director Chris Cox said in a statement.

    “This scheme will unjustly burden law-abiding retailers in border states,” he said. “It will not affect drug cartels and it won’t prevent violence along our borders.”

    It won’t affect the cartels because law-abiding gun retailers weren’t allowed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to stop straw purchases in their shops .

  • Cummings: Gun laws hinder BATFE’s border ops

    Elijah Cummings, a Democrat representative from Maryland – the State that only issues Concealed Carry Weapons licenses when you can prove that you’re in imminent danger – told a forum that the real problem with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is not that they supplied Mexican cartels with thousands of weapons to fight the Mexican government, it’s that US gun laws are too lax;

    Michael Bouchard, a retired ATF assistant director, said one of the ways his former agency strives to prevent crimes is by “disrupting and dismantling large and small firearms trafficking schemes, which put guns into the hands of violent criminals.”

    “Unfortunately, criminals bent on acquiring guns can be very clever in the methods that they use to circumvent the law and avoid detection,” he said. “ATF and law enforcement must continually adjust to the criminal’s changing tactics and develop new strategies and tactics of their own.”

    Apparently, criminals are so clever that they can stare at ATF agents and control their minds to let them walk with high powered weapons right into Mexico from US gun stores without being accosted. How do we fight that kind of cleverness?

    Brady Campaign President Paul Helmke blamed America’s gun laws on the illegal flow of U.S. guns into Mexico.

    “Yet as the six-month anniversary of Tucson approaches, we have still seen no change in our nation’s weak or non-existent gun laws,” he said. “We still have no federal law criminalizing gun trafficking, banning assault weapons and magazines or closing the loopholes in our Brady Background Check system that help arm dangerous killers and supply gun traffickers.

    Yes, we should ban scary-looking weapons so that the BATFE isn’t tempted to let gun smugglers abscond to Mexico with their ill-gotten booty. That makes perfect sense.

    Actually it proves more what the NRA and gun owners across the country have been saying – the whole problem isn’t the number and volume of laws, it’s law enforcement’s unwillingness to enforce laws. Smuggling weapons to Mexico is already illegal.

    I mean BATFE had an opportunity to stop thousands of weapons from going to the cartels and they preferred to look the other way under the guise of an “investigation”.