The Reality of Gun 'Turn-Ins'.

At Snuffy Pfleger's church.


Thanks to Yas at Illinois Carry with more pictures and info.

UPDATE: The 'buyback' wasn't as successful as past years. Seems there's only so many little old ladies w/ rusty guns in their basements.

And in Daley's "Gun Free Paradise" of Chicago

The two indicted for the shooting near Snuffy's church a few weeks ago? A 17yr old and a 16 yr old.

I'm going to take a stab at it and say that the gun was unregistered, they didn't have FOID's (which means no gun show or legal private sale purchase), have some priors, and that gangs/drugs were involved.

The Grassroots that isn't..

We have the Dr. that isn't.

The daughter of an Obama delegate asking fed questions.

Bused in supporters to townhall meetings.

Obama supporters carrying Obama/Hitler signs.

And a pretend White Supremacist (who isn't) sending fake death threats.

This must be where the SPLC has seen its increase in 'right-wing militia's'.

Silence = Support?

That's Paul Helmke's latest claim in that he wants people to believe the NRA is promoting 'blood in the streets' (yes, that tired old meme again) by not issuing press releases on people carrying to Town Hall meetings.

Of course by this logic, the Brady Campaign then approved of the gun confiscations in New Orleans after Katrina.

One would almost think that Helmke WANTS something to happen. Then the Brady Campaign can send out another E-mail alert asking for contributions amounts in the number of people dead. Just like they did after VT.

Creekmore's Top 10

What to do if you want to guarantee your personal extinction.

Arming Criminals

No, not the NRA as is regularly claimed by gun control advocates, but by the authorities themselves. 'Allegedly', the Mayor of Harvey, Illinois instructed a police detective to return a gun to a convicted drug dealer and gang member, a gun that was evidence in a criminal investigation, and have charges of threatening other police officers, dropped.

Charges weren't dropped but they didn't mean anything since the evidence, the gun, had 'disappeared'.

Gotta love Illinois politicians.

Guilt By Association

So the SPLC, joining the DHS, publishes another report about 'right-wing militia's' and all the nasty stuff they might do. Their statements paint quite a broad brush of correlations:

One federal agency estimates that 50 new militia training groups have sprung up in less than two years. Sales of guns and ammunition have skyrocketed amid fears of new gun control laws, much as they did in the 1990s.

They even include military and law enforcement who promise to do their job:

Oath Keepers, the military and police organization that was formed earlier this year and held its April muster on Lexington Green, may be a particularly worrisome example of the Patriot revival.

Gun Control is on the radar:

One Oath Keeper is longtime militia hero Richard Mack, ... won a U.S. Supreme Court decision that weakened the Brady Bill gun control law in the 1990s.

At the same time, players like the National Rifle Association, which in the 1990s publicly attacked federal law enforcement agents as "jackbooted thugs," are back at it. Two months before the election last fall, firearms manufacturers joined forces to promote NRA membership in a national campaign ominously dubbed "Prepare for the Storm in 2008."

Tea Parties, the NRA, anti-illegal immigration, gun shows, Constitutionalism, etc. are being lumped together w/ KKK, neo-Nazi's, white supremacists and violent reactionaries in an attempt to demonize them all and reduce their influence. And all of it is intersparsed w/ correlations to racism at its core.

The partisanship displayed is so overt that even CNN questioned the report when they did a piece on it. it is clearly shown here:

At the Jacksonville, Fla., July tea party, some protesters carried signs that compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler.

"Bushitler" was the default insult for the previous 8 years. Why the uproar now? Oh, right.

This is the kind of rhetoric that we will continue to see. Count on it.

Missing Something?

The original caption stating that this was US troops and Iraqi police during real operations.

Can anyone tell what's wrong w/ this picture?

Relatively quiet on the Eastern Front

Since I'm off training Anti-Jihadist militia in Northern Elbonia, posting has been and will most likely be sparse for the next few weeks.

CCW lawsuit in DC?

According to poster LegalEagle45 on Huffpo and THR:

The prohibition of CCW by law abidding citizens in DC was challenged in a lawsuit filed today in US District Court for the District of Columbia. Case name is PALMER, et al vs. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA and CATHY LANIER.

Counsel of record?

Alan Gura.

And Chicago files brief opposing SCOTUS review of NRA et al V Chicago.

INCONTHEIVABLE!!!

And in a Brady two-fer, Dennis Henigan shows that the word 'Extremist' doesn't mean what he thinks it means.

The plain truth is that the NRA's policy positions long have reflected the extremist ideology of its leadership, and a core group of "Second Amendment absolutists" in its membership.

Now anyone w/ any clue (or any integrity) about the internal debates that go on between firearm activists and owners would find the above statement laughable on its face. Of course to the Brady campaing, ANY support of firearm rights is extremist.

And what's even funnier is his 'evidence' of NRA 'extremism'. A poll done for the Bloomberg financed Mayors Against Illegal Guns and another by paid anti-gun 'researcher' Hemenway , that one 16 years old to boot.

I also like the term 'self-identified NRA members'. Reminds me of this. When a poll of 150 ACTUAL NRA members was taken, none of them supported Brady style 'reasonable' gun laws.

Watch the dancing Helmke..

The Brady Campaign is reveling in the recent shootings in PA, crying out for politicians to 'do something', which we all know will be followed by calls for more restrictions and bans.

Yet this isn't an atypical day in the Brady Paradise of Chicago where handguns and most long-arms are banned, registration, licensing, universal background checks, the works.

Unorganized Militia: Child Soldiers

Fourth Powers Alpha and Bravo have managed to survive six years w/o me strangling them. As a reward, they got their first Daisy rifles:

and lessons on safety (the four rules) and handling.


They did manage to hit the bucket a few times. Not bad for their first time.


Oh. And here's a Cicada.

Chicago Justice

Via commenter Illinois Voter comes this piece showing how much Chicago authorities really want to crack down on crime.

Man gets 3 years in Englewood girl's death

Yep. Three years.

While he wasn't the shooter, he obviously knew they were going to murder someone. He participated in some way to enable that murder. And all he gets is three years.

Chi-Town. Gotta love it.

Just another Weekend in Brady Paradise

From our very favorite Father "Snuffy" Pfleger:

$5K reward offered in shooting of 2 teens

Man killed, woman hurt in carjacking attempt

6 shot outside a (gangbangers)funeral service in Chicago

And?

A politician who promised on the campaign trail not to raise taxes is thinking about raising taxes to pay for a program most people don't want and will still bankrupt the country.

Next in the news, water is wet, bears crap in the woods, and the NEA spends lots of money on stupid crap.

This Judge shoots blanks..

To show how 'impartial' our judicial system is, we have a former NJ judge who respects hunting but other than that is full of the usual Brady talking points. NRA is bad. BAD ASSAULT WEAPON!!! BAD!!! To many guns. "Guns in every pocket". More guns=More crime. 'Reasonable gun laws', etc.

You know. The same kind of bumper sticker proselytizing that Dennis Henigan hates. Not really surprising though looking at his bio:

H. Lee Sarokin served on the United States District Court (N.J.) appointed by President Carter, and the United States Court of Appeals (3rd Cir.) appointed by President Clinton.

Apparently banning Marlin 60's and JC Higgins 29's as 'Assault Weapons' are more of those 'reasonable restrictions' we keep hearing are needed.

Nice weather we're having, eh?

Via WOG comes the latest missive on the Brady Paradise of Chicago.

Shootings wound at least 15 overnight

And that's not including the murders.

Dennis Henigan puts up a post proclaiming that criminals are more likely to commit crimes.

Shock, I know.

How is this different from what the ebil, nasty NRA (and countless firearm owners) has been saying?

His response is to make more laws that (according to US v Haynes and numerous other cases) criminals don't have to bother following since doing so would incriminate themselves.

So lets analyze Chicago.

Handgun ban? Check.
'Assault Weapon' Ban? Check
Annual registration of all allowed guns? Check
Licensing of all firearm owners (FOID)? Check
Universal Background Checks? Check
5 Times the murder rate of the rest of the state? Check

Like David says. Forget it Jake, it's Chi-town.

Guns from the Government

In a study relating primarily to guns coming from the US, some interesting numbers and claims come out regarding to exactly where the international criminals get their armaments from:

"'insiders' illegally sold over 3000 firearms recovered in crime or surrendered in amnesties to the Metropolitan Toronto Police Service."

"Still less is known about the third source of weapons, the Mexican security forces themselves. The Small Arms Survey 2008 showed that weapons diverted from police and armed forces are a major and sometimes the main source of illicit weapons in many countries."

"Some weapons used in Mexican crimes such as grenades, RPGs and fully automatic weapons are less easy to acquire in the US, and have probably arrived from elsewhere."

Basically admitting that the US isn't really the main problem but their own governments and authority figures.

"The authors speculate US authorities would not only have to stem the supply of smuggled weapons from the US, but also other potential sources to successfully block the flow of deadly arms to criminals and criminal organizations."

Which would entail taking over the gov'ts of Canada, Mexico and numerous other countries. I'm sure that would fly.

Yet, even with millions more firearms being made every year in the US and the claims that "gun crime is reaching 'epidemic' levels"( according to those who don't bother looking at actual crime numbers) we read:

The rate of gun homicide in Canada is statistically low and falling

Another interesting statistic is this:

Toronto, a city with 2.8 million people hit 52 gun homicides in 2005

Chicago, a city w/ a population of 2.7 million, had 449 homicides (total) in 2005. Handguns and most long guns are banned there w/ full licensing and registration of what is allowed.

The rest of the state, where firearms are common, has murder rates only slightly higher than Canada (IL: ~3.0, CA: ~2.0).

Authorized Ignorance

Did you know that CCW Reciprocity is equatable to handing out guns to kindergartners? That's the opinion of one "Authorized Journalist" in PA.

" , it isn't a good idea to allow citizens with concealed-carry permits in their home states to travel to other states while armed."

He should be especially upset since PA licenses are recognized in over 2 dozen other states, recognizes those from 2 dozen states, and even issues non-resident permits. Nevermind the hundreds of other reciprocity agreements across the nation.

Not that we expect much accuracy from the media anymore.