Nom de plume: Rivrdog

Holder Lite

Here in Oregon, we have USAG-OR Amanda Marshall, who takes space offered by the anti-gun fishwrap to "make a case" against being able to buy guns privately.

In Marshall's op-ed, she lists a few scary-sounding cases, then jumps right into her preferred fix of mandatory background checks for all gun transactions.

One problem:

Marshall does not claim that any of the "scary" cases she presented is a case of the purported "gun-show loophole" case, and in fact, all the gun possessions mentioned were already illegal by laws already on the books, and a quick look at the perps would show that they were not the types who would have followed any sort of law, anyway.

That's an inferential leap which requires Warp Drive to cross, I'd say.

Then, she ignores the 900# gorilla in the room in writing her op-ed: Holder and the USDOJ simply can't be trusted. In fact, the entire US Government can't be trusted.

Refer to Chris Muir's "Day By Day" 'toon for today. In that first panel, Muir apparently quotes a Miami attorney in summing up the malfeasance of the Obama Administration, very concisely.

Ms. Marshall, should you read this blog, please tell me why any citizen with even a minor education would trust the US Government at this point. Trust is important, since there are Federal Laws prohibiting the Government from maintaining a gun registration list from FFL's records of purchase of guns. If that system of background checks, now in effect only for FFL-purchases, were extended to all purchases, what is to keep the Feds from ignoring the restrictions and making their own list? Bear in mind, for the failed Manchin-Toomey Bill, the feds would have had up to 72 hours to complete a check which is now generally completed in less than a half-hour. What were they planning to do with the extra time if not produce an illegal record of the checks?

If I can't trust your boss, Ms. Marshall, why should I trust you?

Trust is everything, and the Government has exactly none to sell us at the moment.

USAG Holder claims the "Right of Kings" for Feds

This may be the definitive word for this Administration: States have no powers, even within their own borders, and their Laws are ALWAYS inferior to Federal law (and edicts made without benefit of law, it seems).

Couple of observations: first, this is the exact position of the Federal Government which started the Civil War. Note that the "State's Rights" position this time has a tad more MORAL basis. Second, there has been a sea change in the attitude of the Feds which brings on this statement of Holder's: he would NEVER have made this statement seven months ago.

The Imperial Presidency has just been declared.

You can either bow your back like a good imperial subject and put up with the Imperial Presidency and all the corruption which goes with it, or you can grab your ruck and rifle, then leave your home for the last time.

Did I miss any choices?

Gun Control Nazis still at it

...now they're coming after smokeless powder itself, black powder, Tannerite, and etc, etc, etc.

Thanks to JPFO for the news, but I was first, on various blogs in comments several weeks ago, and then in the update to this post.

Of course. These Nazis won't stop until their Gauleiter has control of everything remotely related to keeping and bearing arms.

If we let the Nazis do it to us....

Never again.

The "Second Amendment gets used" clock just ticked off another minute towards Midnight...

 

The First Shot of the Second Revolutionary War

...may have just been fired, by the Obama Administration.

First, go read Joe's excellent explanation of ITAR, the vehicle by which the Administration hopes to kill both the First and Second Amendments to the US Constitution.

For the first time, yesterday ITAR was implemented against a "Joe Sixpack", not a firm dealing in arms, or export of computer technology, just a guy with an idea on how to use evolving technology.

The Joe Sixpack in this case is the Printed Gun Guy.

Several things to disregard:

• The Printed Gun Guy is a jerk. Comes across as one, anyway. He's about on a par with the Open Carry folks who DO TRY to intimidate others with the sight of big scary guns. Ever hear of an O/C guy openly carrying a Kel-Tec P3AT?
• Cody Wilson claims to be advancing this 3-D Printer technology for the purpose of spreading Anarchy. Goodness, we all need more of THAT, don't we?
• The "Printed AR" that Wilson developed is a POS. It fell apart in this test after 6 rounds fired, and is a huge danger to the firer. It would be lawyered out of existance if it was sold on the open market.

Given that Cody Wilson and his "WikiGun Project" is apparently in full-failure mode, why couldn't the Feds have just let him fail, or perhaps sued him for making/spreading the use of a dangerous product?

But no, the Feds jumped the shark.

They trot out ITAR, which they claim, (read Joe's blog) gives them the right of control over ANY information or process that offers ANY chance to arm or improve the armaments of an enemy. That position, were it to become tested in court and be the Law of the Land, would negate the First AND Second Amendments to our Constitution, and thereby, make the Federal Government into a prima-facie dictatorship, controlling thought, speech, dissemination of information and of course, all guns.

I repeat, ALL guns. It also means all training with guns, accessories for guns, ammo for guns, etc.

If the Feds can claim a non-battleworthy POS like the WikiGun (or the data set to build it) could possibly be considered of value to an enemy, then ANYTHING is of value to an enemy. For that matter, since the basic society of the USA is superior to the basic society of any of the shitholes we call our enemies these days, you could, by extension, say that US society itself is of aid to the enemy.

If this is an isolated case, just an inept Administration's way of trying to snuff out a concept that has the potential to obsolete the entire National Firearms Act (if properly applied, which it isn't in this case), then fine, it will soon cease to be of importance.

There is, however, a huge danger that this Administration will expand on their use of ITAR as an anti-freedom tool, and in that case, make a note of it, History fans:

May 9th, 2013, the Federal Government fired the first shot in the Second Revolutionary war. That shot hit it's intended target, which the Federal targeting mavens had wrongly guessed would pre-emptively end the fight for freedom.

If we see more of ITAR though, there will be more shots fired, and they likely will NOT be fired from POS plastic guns or lawyer's processes, they will be fired from real rifles, at important targets ON BOTH SIDES.

Do you want real Gun Control, Mister Obama? If you do, just leave us alone. Our guns already ARE under control, and will stay that way. Loss of control for YOU, Mister Obama, will stem from trying to erase our gun freedoms. Only an Idiot fails to see that, and you're supposed to be a smart guy, not an idiot. 

Victory!

Aboard: the USS Liberator, a ship of war, docked for repairs at her home port, any coast, USA.

!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#

Captain:(waks into the Radio Room) "Radioman, stand by to copy a message. Send the letter "V". Send to all stations, all commands."

Radioman: "Sir?"

Captain: "Sir, what, Sparks"

Radioman: "Sir, what is the rest of the message?"

Captain: "Sparks, that IS the message, "V" "

Captain: Never Mind. Sparks, take five, but before you go, set your transmitter to the frequency for Flash Traffic, all stations"

Radioman: "yes Sir."

The radioman flips a few switches, then gets up from his console and the Captain sits down.

Captain: (operating the key): Dit Dit Dit Daaah.

Radioman: (who never left his little cubby behind the Captain's bridge): "Sir, you just sent flash traffic of Victor." Our instructions are to NEVER send just a "V", because it is the agreed-upon signal for Victory in this War, Sir?"

Captain: (handing Sparks a photo-scan of a newspaper).

Radioman: "Yes, SIR! We HAVE won, Sir!"

Here's that photograph that Sparks just saw:

 

Captain: "Do you have a microphone for the ship's P/A in here, Sparks?"

Radioman: "Yes, Sir."  (flips a few switches at his console and pulls up a microphone, handing it to the Captain)

Captain: (to ship, via P/A) "Now hear THIS. This is the Captain. All work not essential to ship's combat readiness is to cease IMMEDIATELY. The Captain grants the crew 12 hours of LIBERTY ashore. The usual liberty line will now form. While you are ashore, Sailors, hoist one to the Oregon Firearms Federation, for without their tireless work in this fight, we would not have prevailed. That is ALL."

Captain (to radioman): "Can you make a tape of "V", and pipe it on the P/A for five minutes?

Radioman: "Yes SIR. Some of us have something to go home to now."

Captain: "Yes, I know that, Sparks. Your family has a farm in Scio, don't they?"

Radioman: "Yes Sir, they do. They recently re-incorporated the farm as "Liberty Farms", too, Sir"

(In the passageway, a jubilant sailor marches by, his broom at High Port. As he passes the radio room, he snaps his head to the left, passing in review and saluting Sparks, the bearer of the good news. He does NOT flinch upon seeing the Captain in the cubby, but he does lose his composure and crack a wide grin.)

Captain: (to sailor in the passageway): "Carry on, Sailor (and the Captain cracks a matching wide grin)."

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I hope you liked this little ditty. This post has a second purpose, though, and that is to remind the fraction of the Legislature that pushed to overturn gun rights in Oregon that WE aren't the "extremists", as Senator Burdick (D - Portland) was just quoted as saying, SHE is the extremist for trying to take those rights away, and for her political tricks of trying to do it while dancing in the blood of murdered children in Newtown, CT and the murdered Christmas shopper here in Oregon.

While we're at it, shame on the liberal Press for enabling these attacks on our Civil Rights. Shame on the Democratic Party for lining up to support stripping citizens of their Civil Rights.

Yes, there's a lot of joy to spread with this news, but there's also a lot of shame to note.

The rights-killing extremists WILL be back. We have just enough time for a short celebration before their next attack, I'm sure of that.

Excuse me, I think I shall go to the range and celebrate by firing the annual qualifying course for LEOSA-04 (HR-218).

The ammunition shortage, explained, now UPDATED!

...and I'll explain it in three words:

         "battle supply inventory"

Those with guns AND a knowledge of both the Second Amendment AND the current vanishing state of our Freedoms have come to a decision:

         we must be ready to fight for those freedoms

Of course, being ready to fight means having enough ammo, and so the average freedom-loving gun owner's average ammo supplies have taken a leap upward, from a minor amount in inventory, towards an amount sufficient to serve the purposes of an armed Militia (being necessary to the security of a Free State).

Now, do you suppose that Obama gets this obvious message? If he doesn't, it's our job to tell him this truth, in some way.

How to tell him? The words of our organizational representatives in the NRA, GOA, JPFO, NAGR, etc don't seem to be getting through to him, or if they are, he shows determination to ignore those words and continue on his path of suppressing freedoms, or at least project the idea that he has enough clout to suppress them. In politics, generating a state of mind frequently equals accomplishment.

Well, I guess we'll just have to borrow his main tactic, then, won't we?

Double down.

Keep buying that ammo. Yes, it's very expensive now, but keep buying it now anyway. Put some work into it. Spend some time each day at your computers searching for it, and buy it when you find it. You KNOW his peeps have to be watching for any sign that we might be getting tired of stockpiling, so don't get tired. Pour another cuppa Joe and tickle that keyboard.

At some point, we might just have enough ammo to put on a little live-fire demonstration. No, not THAT kind of demonstration. Not yet. We could pick a day, all go to the range on that day, and expend at least 100 rounds in lawful target practice with our favorite militia-appropriate weapon, then report it to the various sites which will be available to collate that info to make sure it gets published, and make sure that Gauleiter Naoplitano sees the totals.

Yes, we can use the ammo shortage to our advantage if we keep up the suction on the ammo pipeline. Obama has already lost the PR war with this ammo shortage anyway: it's keeping the word out there that our freedoms are at stake, and unless Obama wants to jump that shark and declare himself Dictator, he will eventually have to admit that men and women with spine and a love for their Constitution have beaten him.

Keep buying the ammo. Keep the shelves empty. You're all patriots when you do.

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UPDATE: 0506/2013 0800 PDT

I just got back from reading this blurb from Infowars. Interesting stuff. We double down, they re-double. Looks like the ammo war is going to go on for quite a while. Don't be fooled by the fact that NOW, the DHS wants "practice ammo". The building of practice ammo requires these major components:

• Brass cases
• powder
• Primers
• lead
• copper for jackets

...which, strangely enough, are the exact same components required to build "war" ammo (JHPs). The end-result of DHS buying a bazillion rounds of ammo of WHATEVER caliber/style will be to squeeze the civilian pipeline for ANY ammo, because of component shortage to the factories, or to handloaders such as myself.

Stay in the ammo buying game to keep sending the message to Obama that we will NOT be cowed and bullied out of the true meaning of the 2A. Doesn't the fool realize that if militias are called up to oppose the Feds, those members with an oversupply of ammo/guns will share it with other members of their militias? Doesn't he realize that if those militias go to war with his Government, that Government will lose ammo supplies/guns to capture by the Militias? Note that all the Gauleiter's troops, no matter how supplied with huge amounts of ammo, all want to "go home to Mama" at the end of their daily shifts, and they won't last long against militias willing to give all to overcome them. Most of the potential Militia members are prepared to kiss mama goodbye that last time. All the MRAPs, all the battle-rattle, all the ammo in the world can't compensate for not having your heart in the fight. The Gauleiter's men don't have it in their heads to die in significant numbers, and the potential Militia members expect to. That's the winning difference. That's the Constitution's backbone.

Obama's present threats against the true meaning of the Second Amendment, which counter-threatens to depose his dictatorial ass if he goes too far, are hollow. The Militia threat is real, very real, and Obama can't do any preemptive thing about it other than these feeble attempts to dry up ammo supplies and in some states, militia-appropriate weapon supplies. With polls now showing that Obama and his bullying government, a wannabe dictatorship, are more of a threat in most folks' minds than home-grown terrorists, Obama has just about lost the game here. Any sort of action like a Ruby Ridge or a Waco massacre happening now would tip the scales permanently against this assault on our Constitution.

H/T to the Patriot Padre for the new info.

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Mop-up work

Now that the anti-gun hordes have been defeated in their bull-rush to overturn the Bill of Rights, it's not time to retire from the battlefield just yet. There's mop-up work to do. Spotter! Find me a target....

My letter submitted to the local fishwrap this ayem:

Editors:

Now that most of the emoting over gun control has ended the with somber realization that we have a Constitution to reflect on, not destroy, let's have that "conversation".

Commenters have tried to make the point that the more-efficent weapons of today would have been prohibited by the Founders because they were good and moral men, and a single soldier firing more than a dozen shots in a battle was unusual. These arguments say that the technology of killing has overtaken the bucolic pace of the Founders' existence, and by extension, the pace of their thought, so the Second Amendment must be denied or revised.

This might be a good argument if immutable Civil Rights weren't being discussed, but they are. A Civil Right is forever, or it is worthless. A Civil Right must, by definition, be unchangeable.

I might remind the anti-gunners that the First Amendment seems to have survived onrushing technology quite nicely, and we still have and cherish that freedom, so why not the freedom to keep and bear arms?

 

A GOP win? (D)emo defeat? WTF?

The GOPes are crowing that they beat the (D)onks on the Sequester. I have gotten two blast-mails from GOP-HQ already saying "we done good, give us mo' money!"

I don't think so, Festus. Any time you're on the battlefield, and the enemy makes a strong move, and you don't counter that move, but instead, roll with it, the best you can said to have done is survived the enemy's move. You can never be said to have won.

Re: this "sequester": Obama is applying a simple "poison-pill" strategy here, one that's very hard to beat. If the GOPes are going to beat it, they have to beat it by standing their ground, and making it look like HE is the one deliberately applying the hurt with the Sequester, which is true. They didn't stand their ground on the Air Traffic Controllers, they caved by modifying the Sequester so it's not an across-the-board system anymore, but has line-item control by the FAA (read: White House). That's not only NOT a win for the GOP, it's just handed some sort of line-item veto capability to the President which he did not have before, so it's really a major defeat.

The House just gave up their Article 1, Section 8 spending authority to some degree. Of course, once (and if) a budget deal is reached between Congress and the White House, you can count on Obama to start line-item vetoing whatever he wants, claiming that Congress gave him the authority to do so with this FAA sequester variance.

You NEVER give a bully what he wants, NEVER. He'll just take your offer, and punch you out anyway.

The GOP are my Maroons of the Month for this idiocy. They stood their ground on gun control, then decided it was okay to grab their ankles on a budget issue.

New treason case against Eric Holder?

Now it is revealed that a Federal Judge, accompanied by two defense lawyers, showed up at the junior boomer's bedside on Monday, while the FBI was still conducting their interrogation. Neither the Boston PD nor the FBI ordered the judicial crew, and no one has ever heard of a Judge just showing up to conduct an arraignment on their own.

The FBI had been told that they had 48 hours to interrogate before "Miranda" rights would have to be read to the suspect, but only 16 hours into that time period, their interrogation was halted.

There is wide speculation that Eric Holder, maybe acting on his own, or maybe acting on orders of President Obama, directed this little bit of nation-risking legal theater.

Should it turn out that the junior boomer DID know about terror events and someone else gets hurt because of the FBI being unable to get that information out of him before the judicial intervention, then Treason against the United States has been committed.

Everyone knows that Obama was desperate to downplay the Islamic aspect of this terrorism. What better way to get it downplayed than to stifle the bomber's stream of  information to the FBI on his Islamic connections?

This smells very, very bad. The Administration, at least the part of it that Holder controls, likely just put the Nation at risk to play up a mistaken political agenda.

That's treasonable.

Period.

Heard on the News

What is a "self-radicalized terrorist"? Heard in relation to the FeeBees excusing themselves for dropping their watch of the senior Boston boomer.

We are entering "toss the Constitution" territory if there is even a suggestion of such a category.

"Self-radicalized"

Parse that phrase.

"Radicalized" is the major or subjective word, "self" is a modifier.

Bear in mid that we have something called the First Amendment, which permits one to have "radicalized" thoughts, whether in fact they are self-generated or came from someone else's teaching.

"Self-radicalized terrorist" is a concept designed to ignore freedom of speech and thought.

It makes ZERO difference how or where a bomb-thrower got his or her inspiration to actualize a terrorist plan. Once the bombs have been laid, or substantial steps taken towards doing so, crimes are committed. If you are a terrorist, "intent" or "mental state" doesn't matter much once the bombs go boom. If you did it, and that can be proven, it makes no difference if YOUR interpretation of the Quran, or the Torah or the Bible told you to do it, or some Imam, Rabbi or Padre's interpretation did. The bombs went boom and people died and were maimed.

Up against the wall with you.

Let's not let this Constitution-weakening speech creep into our lexicon, especially if we are from the FeeBees.