Oliver Stone: Obama has managed to put together the most intensive surveillance state in the history of the world

Hope and change.

Some guy met with his supervisors. Left. Came back with a gun and shot the two before shooting himself. The news is that he had a carry permit.

Obama used a pseudonym in emails with Clinton, FBI documents reveal.

Well, that makes this odd: Obama Says He Didnt Know Hillary Clinton Was Using Private Email Address

The sheer pants-shitting hysteria in this piece on what Americans carry in their pocket is amusing. Here’s what I presume is a grown up adult person afraid of inanimate objects.

Via Tam, with completely loses its shit at the sight of a lockback pocket knife of the variety usually given to Texans on their eighth birthday.

A court has ruled that national security interests trump speech and that 3D printed gun plans are subject to arms export laws.

The health department revised their report from 130 to 5. Seems like a pretty big screw up. Here’s the historical trend:

1999: 47
2000: 44
2001: 49
2002: 46
2003: 37
2004: 38
2005: 36
2006: 30
2007: 22
2008: 17
2009: 29
2010: 31
2011: 31
2012: 24
2013: 19
2014: 5

Interesting:

A city councilman wants Spokane Valley to declare itself a Second Amendment Sanctuary City and symbolically proclaim the citys support for its citizens right to keep and bear arms.

Caleb Collier says his idea is a response to Washington Attorney General Bob Fergusons recent announcement that hell ask state legislators to ban the sale of semi-automatic rifles.

At last weeks Spokane Valley City Council meeting, Collier asked that the Second Amendment Sanctuary proclamation be added to the councils upcoming agenda.

Via Joe, who has thoughts on the issue.

One would think the whole country would be a second amendment sanctuary.

The law is pretty clear, certain antique firearms (mostly front stuffers) are not classified as firearms under the law. Since they are not legally firearms, there’s no prohibition of felons owning them. One guy researched this before hunting. He was arrested anyway:

Weeks, his wife and his father researched the law banning felons from possessing guns and found an exception for antique guns and their replicas. He was dressed in camouflage gear and an orange safety vest with a replica of a 1918 .50 caliber muzzleloader rifle in his pickup truck when he was arrested in 2012 by a Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officer.

He was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm and sentenced to three years’ probation.

His conviction was overturned. I think he should sue everyone involve.

Heh

Chinese Type 56 Milled AK

A gun that shoots a 4.25mm round

A piece entitled How to smash the gun lobby offers no real way to actually accomplish that. It’s full of silliness but mostly displays that the author doesn’t understand guns, gun culture or the “gun lobby”. You see, anti-gun people produce nothing. They sell no worthwhile product. There’s not anti-gun range. No anti-gun show. This person really fails to grasp any of it.

A motorist was “allowed” to travel peaceably through a crowd of Black Lives Matter rioters. Because he had a gun.

However, I don’t think having your window rolled down and holding your handgun out the window is a real good idea.

So, twitter suspended Glenn’s account for silly reasons. I’ve only ever heard of twitter suspending non lefties. I’m sure they censor lefties too but I never hear of it.

Tam has hands on with the new sooper seekrit Ruger Mark IV. I dig the break open design. I’ve never disassembled the other Ruger 22s but I’ve heard that it’s not fun and you tend to lose zero.

Wherein a gay activist group and the Second Amendment Foundation challenge DC’s requirement that, for a carry permit, one must demonstrate “good reason to fear injury”.

Why millennials are skeptical of gun control:

In spite of the prevailing attitude toward millennials in the media, where it seems we are often portrayed as somewhat unmotivated and unwilling to engage on important issues, millennials are incredibly passionate, motivated, empirically minded and data-driven. And when it comes to gun control, we have a mountain of evidence over the last half-century to show that government efforts to restrict gun ownership are utterly ineffective at achieving their stated claims: a safer society through the reduction of violent crime.

And it’s important to keep in mind the internet. Millennials have, for the most part, had it for most of their lives. And, unlike old school media, the pro gun side pretty much dominates the internet.

North Korean Type 73 LMG. Been seeing a lot of Nork guns on the intertubes lately.

Heh

About that ridiculous “study” on gun owners and how many guns they own, just check out The Gun Feed. Needless to say, it’s crap.

Recently, I went to a receiving of friends for an acquaintance. At the service, they had a slideshow of pictures of the recently departed, which is pretty typical at this particular funeral home. However, toward the end of said slideshow, there were pictures of family members that were obviously taking “selfies” with the soon to be departed. It struck me as poor taste. The notion of two children posing with their soon to be dead mother using all of the same techniques you see on facebook each day for taking a selfie was unsettling.

Why anyone would hang out when shots are being fired is beyond me. I guess the 15 minutes of social media fame or some such. Get out of there, moron.

That’s what some are speculating. Joe tells why it may be the case. It’s been the target of would be nannies for a while. I think most people don’t realize just how easy it is to make explody things.

12 year old finds a knife at school. Reports it. Gets suspended.

Zero intelligence.

Not helping*:

FOX 11 Investigates was told off-camera by a representative of Badger Gun Sales that he won’t sell a handgun to a woman without her first getting trained. He recommends to his female clients they check out Well Armed Woman, a gun training group solely for women.

So, men, you presume, are already trained? This is unhelpful, sexist nonsense.

* Presuming the journalist is not fibbing.

M1C Sniper Garand

Bubbas Molested Mosin

Donald Trump, pointing out Hillary Clinton’s hypocrisy on guns, said that we should take away her bodyguards’ guns. A valid point, noting she has guns for her protection, paid for by you, but that you shouldn’t be allowed to have one for your protection.

But the press says that this was Trump “alluding to violence” against Secretary Cankles. That is laughable.

Remember that Oregon pastor who used his church’s money to buy raffle tickets for an AR-15 because he wanted to get that gun off the street? So he transferred it to a friend for safekeeping, a clear violation of the new Oregon background check law. Yeah, him.

Turns out, he was cleared because the police didn’t look very hard:

Officials were investigating whether Rev. Jeremy Lucas may have violated a recent state law that makes transferring a gun without a background check illegal, even if the arrangement is between private parties and no money changes hands.

But investigators uncovered no evidence that Lucas, 45, actually transferred the gun and never determined the name of the gun-owning friend, Clackamas County District Attorney John Foote said in a letter to the Oregon State Police.

The letter was written Sept. 9 and made public Thursday by state police.

Lucas didnt speak with investigators, state police said in a statement.

Without the transferee in this case, I dont think we could ever have a prosecutable case, Foote wrote.

Didn’t even ask him? I say put him in jail for it so he can lecture me from his cell about lax gun laws.

So, bombings in NY. And in NJ. A mass stabbing at a mall. Shouts of aloha snackbar.

All small scale stuff. But it could have been worse, with a bit of coordination.

The mall stabbing guy was stopped by a competition shooter and police officer.

Kevin on the Paper of making up the Record embarrassing article that Missouri is now the shoot me state.

A story of the complete failure of a background checks to stop anything.