Colorado Defensive Shooting

Drunken college student, 3x the legal limit, wanders into a home and goes into the owner's bedroom, ignoring numerous warnings that they had a gun, and keeps heading towards them.  Home owners shoot her, striking her in the hip.

This is a clear case of Castle Doctrine.  There was NO opportunity for the homeowners to 'retreat' (even though under CO law they had no duty to), w/ her continuing to come towards the homeowners after multiple warnings, that is a clear threat.

So now my question, will the anti-gun advocates, especially Ladd Everitt of the CSGV, support this?  It fits all the myriad restrictions and requirements they demand. 

Or will they come up w/ some other lame qualifier or excuse why this wasn't 'justified'? 

I think we all know the answer.

OGRE: Nihon Empire Update #3

Kickstarter OGRE Project Update #40 is out and it includes a link to yet another suuuurvey.  This one on what people would like to see on the 3rd KS exclusive sheet.  Options include buildings for Nihon and Vatican forces either exclusively or in combination along w/ various OGRE's and 'green' buildings'.

Milwaukee PD Faking Crime Numbers

Following in the footsteps of Chicago wanting to artificially decrease homicide numbers, MPD chief Flynn seems to have wanted to decrease the city's assault stats:

 When Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn touted the city's fourth-straight year of falling crime in February, hundreds of beatings, stabbings and child abuse cases were missing from the count, a Journal Sentinel investigation has found.
More than 500 incidents since 2009 were misreported to the FBI as minor assaults and not included in the city's violent crime rate, the investigation found. That tally is based on a review of cases that resulted in charges - only about one-fifth of all reported crimes.

 If the name 'Flynn' sounds familiar, it should.  This is the same individual that threatened legal Open Carry advocates in '09:

 "My message to my troops is if you see anybody carrying a gun on the streets of Milwaukee, we'll put them on the ground, take the gun away and then decide whether you have a right to carry it," Flynn said. "Maybe I'll end up with a protest of cowboys.

And then threatened that Concealed Carry advocates might be shot if they don't 'think very carefully'.  

Milwaukee is also a member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns and is using tax money to pay anti-gun activists on the city payroll.

We see what their priorities are.

Troll WIN!!!

Right after a protest upped the attendance for a fund raiser shoot in Ohio, Ladd just can't help advertising for another one from the Daily Caller.

He was even assisted when he forgot to add a link to the article.  

 Two minutes later....

Deleted, banned and laughing his @ss off.  Reasoned discourse in action.  They really are this stupid. 

That Firearm Named

From the mini-contest here.

It was not a .22, an air rifle or anything suppressed. Come on people, I live in Illinois.

Here's what it is:



 Almost all the shock and sound echoed away from the gun due to the way the buildings are placed, causing a muffling effect where the camera was located.  You can hear the full echo in the background.

Illinois State Police Threaten NICS/FOID Shutdown

With the mounting opposition to SB1034, a bill creating lots of new firearm restrictions for Illinois residents using a shell bill on drug use, the ISP have doubled down so they can get that DOJ money. According to NRA lobbyist Todd Vandermyde, they've threatened to further delay FOID applications (in violation of state law) and to stop NICS background checks if this bill is not passed.

They REALLY want this money and will do anything to get it.

Here is the ISRA alert and the factsheet on the bill and the link to comment on this bill. 

H/T to GunsSaveLife.com via their email alert system.

Name That Firearm

First correct answer (leaving comment here) gets a free DOOT patch of their choice:

Streisand Effect: Ohio Edition

Bunch of PuSH'ers get their undies in a wad over a fundraiser target shoot for OH Rep. Margarett Condit, equating the event to a school shooting.

Buckeye Firearms Assoc. and OH gun owners raise over three grand for her campaign in response.

That's funny right there.

H/T to Guns.com

Stupid Is as Stupid Does

Andrew Goddard, father of VT survivor Colin Goddard, president of the VA MMM Chapter, and Board Member of the NG(V)AC) (not to mention religious bigot) shows the world his expertise on firearms. 

Yes, because the minute you pick up a '50 cal sniper rifle' you can immediately make pinpoint shots a mile away. Nevermind that most military snipers can't/don't make shots at that range.

They really are this stupid.

No 'Insurrectionist Timeline' Entry Here

It's threats against a Republican. *

The video in question features former AFL-CIO of South Carolina president Donna DeWitt smacking a (Gov. Nikki) Haley piñata with a baseball bat at DeWitt's retirement party over the weekend. 

 Here's the video and a picture since there are attempts to remove it:

 

This is closer to a real threat than CSGV's farcical 'gun pointing at Obama' tirade, people yelling with blood lust 'Whack her' over and over and the batter hitting it repeatedly even after it fell. But nary a mention will be made by Ladd Everitt or his band of merry Ummpa Loompa's because implied threats/violence against firearm A rated candidates isn't relevant, even encouraged, in their myopic world.

*Yes, I fully understand the concept of hyperbole and political speech. Stick w/ the point.

Latest VPC 'Report'

Josh takes his latest batch of cherry-picked number and random claims to the next degree of silliness, putting out a 'study' that would embarrass any Freshman stats student.  No associated information (suicide, homicide, etc), historical data on whether the numbers are increasing or decreasing, nothing.  Just some randomly selected data points and his usual wish list of guns he wants to ban. 

Why? Because showing any of that would refute his claims.  He's got to do something to keep those Joyce funds flowing and himself employed. 

Let's take a look at a city where the laws he likes are mostly in place.  Chicago.  So far for 2012 (through May 6), 'shooting incidents' are up 20% (to 706) and homicides are up 54% (to 169) compared to last year. And still  Rahm is spending millions of tax payer dollars to defend their bans and restrictions. 

IGOLD vs NATO Protest

Here are photos of the annual IGOLD event comprising 5,000-8,000 people each year.

• IGOLD 2009
• IGOLD 2010
• IGOLD 2011

IGOLD 2012


No arrests. No vandalism.  Nothing. A dozen or so officers directing traffic.

Now take a look at the photos from the NATO protest in Chicago. 
 
Hundreds of police, violence, bloodshed, arrests, random destruction. Everything you'ld expect to see from those of that political persuasion. (Have to love the Tactical , all- terrain Segway. )

But PuSH'ers and Chicago politicians say WE'RE the violent ones? Will any of this make it on CSGV's 'Insurrectionist Timeline'?  All these Anarchist and anti-gov't activists?  Of course not because they're not affiliated w/ the NRA or any other element of the 'gun lobby'.