DOOT 2016 Presidential Endorsement

After much soul searching, only one candidate can truly be supported by the editorial staff at Days of Our Trailers. 







It was a tough decision.

Play Stupid Games

So woman from Chicago 'burbs buys guns legally and then knowingly sells them to gang bangers to make some extra money and gets caught.  Based on US law, she could be up for 30-40 years.

Any bets on what she will actually get?  SCC says probation.

There are also some really stupid comments by the CPD in the article.  Have fun.

Less than 10%

There was a murder up in Champaign, IL recently which has a lot of folks tweaked.  It's primarily a 'college town' but things have been getting worse. This is partly why.

URBANA — A Champaign teenager paroled two weeks ago from boot camp for a shooting offense has been charged with first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a firearm in the death of a bystander in a shooting early Sunday morning in Campustown.

 Patton was paroled Sept. 9 after having served about 8 1/2 months of an eight-year prison term for aggravated discharge of a firearm.

and it wasn't just 'playing around':

  Patton is thought to have fired a gun at two men in the parking lot of the restaurant 

Translation, he tried to murder someone and since those he shot at were also likely a bunch of thugs, they didn't cooperate and it got pled down. Then he only server 8 months out of 8 yrs. 

And what has he done since he got out?   

 Patton was already arrested once this month after his release from prison.

 On Sept. 11 — two days after being granted parole — UI police arrested him for allegedly lying about his identity. A police report said Patton was a passenger in a car that police stopped about 1:15 a.m. that Sunday near Green and Locust streets for an alleged traffic violation.
Smelling cannabis emanating from the car, police had the driver, Tyren Mercier, 18, of Champaign, get out. He was later arrested and charged with possession with intent to deliver cocaine and possession of cocaine after police said they found individually wrapped packages of cocaine in his wallet. Patton was released from the county jail that same day after posting bond and was later charged with misdemeanor obstruction of identification.

So how many parole violations right there? And they let him go again , just so he could go murder some people a few days later.

And what were those circumstances? 

Big party in an area of mostly college students.  None of those involved, however, are students themselves.   

The apartment where the party was going on was rented by some Champaign residents, and despite its location in the heart of Campustown, police don’t think any of the people directly involved in Sunday’s melee were University of Illinois students.

Another translation:  The 'Champaign residents' are the local drug dealers for the campus and all those 'directly involved' are part of the local criminal circle.  

 18 yrs old felon so no FOID, CCW, or any shape or form of a legal purchase w/ 'Universal Background Checks'.  Multiple past offenses and insanely weak sentencing for violent crimes. 

This is the norm for 'gun violence'.  Remember this when they call for even more laws they won't enforce. 

The Latest... As Expected

The WA mall shooting:

'Usual suspect' w/ a history.
Prohibited person
Gun Free Zone
Strictest UBC's in the country. Passed w/ $10m of gun control money.

So how did he get the 'hunting type rifle'?

About what I figured

Pastor Jeremy Lucas will face no charges.

Looks like all one has to do in Oregon to xfer a weapon and not fear charges is just keep your mouth shut and refuse to answer any questions about it if asked.

yep

The Three G's: Guns, Gaming, & Grub

Friend came over and we got some handgun shooting in.  4thpwr Alpha got some education on the Beretta and 5th pwr practiced w/ his BBgun. 

Some speed shooting practice.  After several fails. 

 Started the game and the grill with burgers and brats w/ various chips and deviled egg potato salad sides. .  This was 5thpower's first game session.  Much fun was had.

Gratuitous cat pictures.

Lucas, I am your father

Wow, I still have permissions to post here!

Not sure how much of the old crowd is still around, but I've been rather busy the last couple of years. Still working, opened up a side business and just taking a break from the whole issue.

Having said that, I've been following the case of Jeremy Lucas, the Pastor who won an AR-15 in a raffle so he could destroy it, turning it into artwork. I'm sure the readers here are familiar with the case. He posted on facebook that he gave the rifle to a member of his church for safe-keeping until he could find an artist who could turn it into some non-gun thingy, in violation of Oregon's new "universal" background check law.

I've made a lot of calls and spoken to a lot of cops. I should have an update tomorrow.

An 'Inigo Montoya' Moment or Just Honesty?

So a local gun grabber who runs a nearly defunct 'gun violence PAC' has posted a bunch of copy/paste 'opinion' pieces in the Chicago papers. I take a look at their FB page and find they're holding an awards ceremony for Father 'Snuffy' Phleger.  They go on about how 'interest has exploded' so a few dozen people are attending.  Mostly the usual suspects.  Then I did a double-take on the name of the award.  "No", I thought, "They can't be serious."

The 'Paper Tiger' award ceremony.  Yeah, it's really called that. And just for clarity:

I really don't know what else to say.