Chicago 'Gun Buyback' Money Coming From Rahms @ss

So the city of Chicago is hundreds of millions in debt for pensions so that Rahmbo is making sweeping across the board increases in taxes and fees to pay for it, making Chi-town one of the highest taxed cities in the nation. 

Yet he's able to pull out $250G for a publicity stunt along w/ all the overtime he'll have to pay police to do it.

Yeah, another 'gun buyback' which has never been shown to have ANY impact on crime.

Well GSL is going to be there w/ bells on to help support youth safety and education and they're pissing off all the right people:

Anthony Guglielmi, spokesman for the Chicago Police Department, said officers will check to see whether turned-in guns are operable but won’t check the IDs of the people who bring them in.
“If people want to game the system, society is the victim,” he said. “I think those people need to ask themselves, are they part of the solution to reduce violence?”

If you've got any old clunkers, GSL will accept them and they'll go to a good cause.

Denial. It Ain't Just A River in Egypt.

You really have to love anti-gun advocates.  They truly have to live in a world of their own to maintain their self image.  Take this column for example:

That power of the NRA is now diminishing and the power of "common sense" gun organizations are rising, such as the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence

Only if he defines 'now' as the last few weeks w/ a margin of error.  Pew and Gallup both show the exact opposite trend as does any measure of common sense.

Then this unsurprising bit of info:

Hillary Clinton will be recognized by the Brady Center for her "longstanding leadership in the fight to reduce gun violence by keeping guns out of dangerous hands".

While working for an administration that has shipped arms to drug dealers and terrorists.  Interesting take on it. The 'Brady Center' is giving her this 'award' in order to garner some media attention since she's currently in the lime-light  It's about the only light they can afford to keep on anymore since they're near defunct and have been mostly supplanted by the millions of dollars (not donors or members, unlike the NRA) of Bloomberg Inc.

The NRA, for its part, has stopped every single "common sense" gun reform proposal in the past 15 years, including a universally accepted "universal background checks."

How have they done that if their power is so 'diminished'?  A refrain we've been hearing from other failing anti-gun fanatics (ie Josh Sugarmann) for years.

The inaugural Mario M. Cuomo Visionary Award will be presented to Hillary Clinton at the Brady Center’s annual Brady Bear Awards Gala in New York on November 19.

Bet she won't show.  Any takers? I'll give odds.

In an attempt to "distract and distort" the "common sense" gun debate, the NRA is claiming that Hillary Clinton favors a "gun confiscation" agenda, using the code word of "Australia."

I love this bit.  He then goes on to justify how wonderful Australia is while completely ignoring the FACT that the rigged statistics he provides are only in association w/ the CONFISCATION of hundreds of thousands of privately owned firearms (while we managed to drop our homicide rate 50% over the same period).  He has to ignore that to maintain his worldview of the NRA as some giant behemoth that controls the minds of tens of millions of firearm owners (w/ their reduced influence of course).  You know, the usual "NRA is in the business of selling guns" meme.

The NRA doesn't have to 'fear monger' or lie.  Clinton and Obama gave firearm advocates that gift of calling for confiscation wrapped in a neat package w/ that fancy metallic ribbon as a bow.  The author's attempts to distract from that are nothing but sad as he lives in the gun control mental utopia of 20 yrs ago.

Gun Control #Fail by @GavinNewsom

So the Lt. Gov. of CA, the guy proposing all those new anti-gun laws including confiscation of standard capacity magazines, admits that all their previous laws are a failure:

Since he knows the number, they must know who they are.  Are the CA authorities not enforcing the laws?  Are they incapable of doing so?  How would more laws then keep the 35k from keeping them? 

He refuses to respond w/ anything other than anti-gun statistics and claims he's being 'gone after'. 

Brady Campaign Head "NRA are Terrorists".

So who are the real extremists? 

Head of the foundering anti-gun group 'Brady Campaign' Dan Gross on the NRA.

"This is not a negotiation with the NRA,” Gross said. “We don’t negotiate with terrorists."

Yep, an organization w/ 5 million dues paying American members is a 'Terrorist' organization. 

These are the words of an mouth-foaming extremist watching his group and his (paid for) cause collapse. 

This is the same organization that for years has been calling for 'discourse' on firearm yet this is how they feel about firearm owners who aren't willing to kowtow to their constant calls for restrictions and bans. 

This is just one of numerous anti-gun groups who are upset that an NRA rated D- politician might have a chance at election.  They want 'F's. 

So who are the extremist gun fanatics here? 

Zeroing, Shooting, and Chicken Stew

Got some scopes mounted on the 4th power's 10/22's and finally got a chance to get them out and zero them.  After about 10 min. of trying to adjust the support stand via their instructions, I moved them and did it myself.  The difference in weight kept moving the bench.  Took about 10 rnds ea but we got them to about 1moa.  Good enough for now and w/ inexpensive scopes. 

Then some fun shooting. Hedge apples and a .22 resetting steel target.  Only got through about half a box before the 0% chance of rain started drizzling on us and we packed it in.  Also did some plinking w/ the 5th power.

Followed up by heaping bowls of homemade chicken & vegetable stew (the chicken was clucking just hours before), overall a good day.

Chicago Gun Crime in Action

So a woman is caught on video firing multiple shots on a busy urban street during an altercation (also a crime)


The police (when they showed up) received no help from people standing around.  They didn't see or hear anything. 

The police weren't there any sooner because all on-duty officers were at a mandated PR 'Outdoor Roll Call'.  Three blocks away.

When they found the woman suspected of doing the shooting, she was charged w/ misdemeanor reckless conduct and released after 8 hrs on bond.

Betting she has no FOID or CCW. 

Betting she has a record already.

Reckless discharge of a firearm is a felony in Illinois. 5 shots.  5 felonies.

But why bother charging her w/ more when they'll just plead it down anyway?

Why bother enforcing the laws on the books when we can call for more laws?

Why bother policing at all when trying to do so will result in no help from the locals and any alleged misstep will result in the officer being vilified in the media?

Obama Attends Hollywood Gun Control Event (Exclusive Video)

Surrounded by dozens of armed guards, Obama attended an exclusive $33K+/plate event in Hollywood yesterday.  DOOT has managed to obtain exclusive video of the event.

We Have Facts, They Have D!*k Jokes

Another highly effective anti-gun 'protest'.

College Students Plan to Carry Sex Toys Around School to Protest Campus Carry

she chose the sex toy as “it spotlights the masturbatory nature of the power which people derive from gun ownership

Historically, only about 1% of people who claim they'll 'attend' these FB events actually go so it will be really funny watching these 2 doz. or so individuals make themselves look like fools waving their rubber schlongs alone in class.

Unsurprisingly, she's completely ignorant of anything related to evidence or facts. It's all on how she's afraid of people and guns combined w/ sophomoric sensationalism.  She'll probably be offered a job w/ the Brady Campaign or Bloomberg next.

The NRA's the Problem?

A selection of headlines just from today:

Woman accused of injecting 14-year-old daughter with heroin 

Teen Accused of Killing, Raping His Teacher Said 'I Became the Teacher' After Murder

5th grade boy kills 8-year-old neighbor with shotgun

Student confesses to writing bomb threat in bathroom at Grafton middle school

Evening Classes Cancelled at College of DuPage After Bomb Threat

These have nothing to do w/ 'easy access to guns' or anything else besides a sick culture and a lack of ethical/moral values in families.