In a decision that could have broad implications throughout the silencer industry as well as with shooters/consumers, the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (BATFE or ATF) has notified silencer manufacturer Dead Air Armament that the wipes used in their Ghost M silencer is a silencer part…

…Historically, the ATF has viewed wipes made of rubber or other disposable materials not to be silencer parts, making them replaceable by the end user. Replacing actual silencer parts, no matter how small, can only be accomplished by an FFL/SOT.

Source: BREAKING: ATF Decides Dead Air Wipes Are Silencer Parts – The Firearm BlogThe Firearm Blog

We are back to the Clinton Era shenanigans by ATF.  Back in the day, they would arrest people for having illegal silencer parts that later on trial turned out to be nothing more than regular rubber washers for sinister applications such as garden hoses or absorbing vibration.

And in most cases, the case would reach court (eventually) and the judge would make a decision (eventually) that those were not silencer parts and you would be free after a considerable expenditure of money.  And what was the punishment given to the ATF agents for wasting the time of the courts and the monies of the taxpayers engaging in such ridiculous persecution? You silly Bug! You are talking about an agency that sent weapons to Mexican Cartels, weapons that were responsible for God Knows how many dead so far and the death of two American Law Enforcement Agents and nobody got as much as a reprimand! Arresting somebody under a fake interpretation of rules they make up as they please and subjecting him to shame and financial ruination? Hell, they probably got an attaboy!

And you all were giddy about the White Paper thinking the agency under this administration would behave more friendly to Gun Owners.

For some reason I vaguely seem to recall something said  about this predator and his spots.

Moms Demand Action made this post about a recent Newsweek OpEd.

AMID RACIST THREATS, WE MUST DO MORE TO DISARM HATE.

#DisarmHate is one of the most worthless and social-justice-esque hashtags on Twitter right now.  It is full of Tweets like this:

Because there is nothing more intersectional than a hashtag dedicated to promoting the idea:

“As a society we can stop this epidemic by hiring trans women of color, making sure they have safe places to live and standing up when we see or hear them being demeaned and attacked and simply by valuing their lives.”

But back to the Newsweek article.

During the recent Jewish holiday of Purim, at least seven Jewish community centers in the U.S. and Canada received bomb threats. Altogether, Jewish institutions in North America have received more than 150 threats of violence since the beginning of the year.

Lets forget for a moment that the first person to be arrested for making threats against Jewish groups wasn’t the white supremacist that everyone on the Left wanted it to be.

Or that the lasted round of campus Antisemitism has come from the deep blue University of Illinois at Chicago, in the form of flyers about “Jewish Privilege” – which is straight out of Nazi propaganda – and is associated with #BlackLivesMatter.

After seeing this horrible Antisemitism, what does the writer for Newsweek want?

But rather than proposing policies that would make targeted and vulnerable communities safer, the National Rifle Association (NRA) is doing everything it can to gut our existing gun laws and advance its agenda of more guns for anyone, anywhere, no questions asked.

I’m sorry, but after watching all that ANTIFA violence and watching Leftists attack Jews on college campuses you are damn straight that I want to be able to carry a gun on me anywhere, no questions asked.

I know firsthand how threats can turn violent and even fatal when individuals filled with hate have easy access to weapons. On a beautiful summer day in 2006, I was shot at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, where I worked. Four of my female colleagues also were shot and—luckily—survived. Tragically, our colleague, Pam Waechter, was shot and killed that day.

In the more than 10 years since my shooting, the gun safety movement has made progress by passing gun laws that help keep guns out of dangerous hands. I have been proud to be part of that progress, working with Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, as well as the Alliance for Gun Responsibility, in Washington state.

But now the gun lobby is doing everything it can to undo that progress.

I truly feel bad for the author to have been in that situation.  I can’t imagine being there when that shooting happened.  However, the way I was raised, my reaction was different.  I felt the time had come for the “Israeli Approach.”

That’s right, bring a long gun.

What the author fails to mention is that the Jeiwsh Federation shooting was carried out by the US citizen of Pakistani heratage, and Muslim, Naveed Afzal Haq.  Muslims have become the pet darlings of the Radical Left, to the point where two of them are being hailed for leading the Women’s March (including a convicted terrorist).

This article wants me to believe that the threat comes from White Supremacists and the NRA is backing them.  Turns out, it is the Left coddling Radical Islamists and Jew haters in the name of Social Justice is the the real threat to Jews.

So I cam going to be armed.  I can’t trust the Left to protect me.  When some member of the Muslims Student Association tries to run me over or stick a knife in my ribs these same people will tell me not to be Islamophobic and if Israel wasn’t oppressing the Palestinians, maybe I wouldn’t be bleeding out.

Bullshit.  My father raised me to fight antisemitism with the two best tools we had, education and a 1911.  If the first fails, the second wont.

I’m just can’t take advice from a victim of Islamic terrorism who’s response is to disarm the Jews.  That is the attitude of a Capo.  I’m going to stand with the NRA, knowing that if the Left won’t try and stop Islamic and Leftist Antisemites from trying to hurt or kill me, I’m going to have to do it myself.

There is an old adage: never get high on your own supply.

Eric Idle has broken that rule.

What is funny about the “burn the witch” scene from Monty Python’s Holy Grail and the stoning scene from Life of Brian is how over the top ridiculous it is.  Some poor sod was going to get burned alive or stoned to death because of an angry mob of idiots or hysterical housewives.

Yes, that is British funnyman Eric Idle advocating genocide based on political ideology.

He is secure enough in his belief that he is right and everybody that disagrees with him is so wrong they should pay for it with their lives.  This is both sad and horrifying, but this is what the far Left has become.  Heretics are to be killed.

There is no room for discussion on this.  The idea that anybody who isn’t a true believer in anthropocentric climate change must die is the Green equivalent to ISIS.

I never though that what would get me send to the gas chambers was thinking is it not the best use of $2.2 billion taxpayer dollars to fund unsustainable, unfeasible, and ultimately failed green energy projects owned and managed by major political donors.

But really that is irrelevant.  The reason a totalitarian wants to exterminate you is capricious.  They want to exterminate you and will find whatever justification makes it, in their minds, OK to do so.

Advocating mass murder for political disagreements is not funny.  I’m getting really tired of the Left making genocide their go to final solution for winning political arguments.

Heck, they issued a challenge!

Dear Shannon, just make sure to hire more people to make noise and a good photographer that understands the issues with depth of field and trick photography.

By the way, I think Dana Loesch is gonna be at the Annual Meeting, do you think this time you would be willing to have that debate she has been asking since before the NRA AM in Indianapolis? CNN is right around the corner from where the party is gonna be held, we can go ahead and make it a live show during Wolf Blitzer’s.

And before you start with the lies again:

Firearms Policy for the 2017 NRA Annual Meetings:

During the 2017 NRA Annual Meetings & Exhibits, lawfully carried firearms will be permitted in the Georgia World Congress Center and the Omni Atlanta Hotel at CNN Center in accordance with Georgia law.  However, firearms are not allowed in the remainder of the CNN Center, including the food court and shops.  When carrying your firearm, remember to follow all federal, state and local laws.

And no, I won’t be able to go. I don’t have a rich pimp benefactor like Michael Bloomberg who pays for my food and lodging.  I have to do some long overdue household repairs plus some medical procedures upcoming.

The  Firearm Owners Protection Act, simply stated says that if you can legally own a firearm where you are and  you can legally own a firearm where you are going, you are not supposed to be harassed or arrested while in transit even if the you are not “legal” in between. You need to carry your firearm in a way determined by law, but other than that, you are supposed not to be sent to jail. period.

Of course, the intention of the law got trashed in places like New York and New Jersey where if you are stopped legally carrying a firearm under FOPA, it gets ignored and you will be wearing handcuffs soon enough. Rumor has it that having a Florida plate during  transverse through the Garden State will ensure you a stop and a full vehicle search because we are the Gunshine State.

HR 358 intends to make clear to other jurisdictions that they are no longer allowed to be assholes, but that it will become rather costly for them to do so.

“(d)(1) A person who is deprived of any right, privilege, or immunity secured by this section, section 926B or 926C, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage of any State or any political subdivision thereof, may bring an action in any appropriate court against any other person, including a State or political subdivision thereof, who causes the person to be subject to the deprivation, for damages and other appropriate relief.

Basically, if you are arrested because they just felt like it, you can sue from the cop, trooper or deputy that arrested you all the way to the Governor in Federal court. Best part, your lawyer will also have his fees and expenses paid by the State.

And also, since it appeared that the Northeastern states were in need of a Crayola Explanation, one was given:

“(b) In subsection (a), the term ‘transport’ includes staying in temporary lodging overnight, stopping for food, fuel, vehicle maintenance, an emergency, medical treatment, and any other activity incidental to the transport,

And this bill already has a counterpart in the senate according to NRA-ILA:

The first such bill was H.R. 358, filed by Rep. H. Morgan Griffith (R-VA) and 38 cosponsors in February. Joining him this week was Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), who introduced S.618 on Tuesday.

This bill has been a long time coming. Expect the traditional BS coming out of Everytown and assorted jackasses from new Jersey. I am willing to bet that will raise opposition in the name of the Iron Pipeline and TSA finding guns in carry on luggage. I know it has nothing to do with the price of the price of Jimmy Dean Sausage in Nepal.

A case out of Lake City County, Florida where a sheriff’s deputy, looking a suspected armed robber (who he had been chased and missed minutes before,)  shot and killed an innocent man who opened the door of his apartment with a gun in his hand.

The thread where I caught this was based on an article from Slate and of course, slanted as hell. The court granted qualified immunity to the deputy and there is an argument about it going on. But this in not where I want to take this post but rather why the victim felt compelled to open the door, gun in hand.

According to the court documents, the shooting happened around 1:30 AM, the deputy did not identify himself and the victim opened the door armed.  Deputy sees the gun and immediately opens fire, killing the victim. Again and leaving all the legal crap behind for other forums, why did the victim (19-year-old male) open the door? Why didn’t he checked out who was out there first before opening the door?

In the court document, there is a somewhat crappy shot of the apartment:

It does not have a great definition, so I found one of an apartment similar to the one in the document belonging to the same residential complex:

I see no peephole.

Now, there is a window with curtains also, but apparently it was not used to check outside either. Nor was there a verbal challenge by the deceased inquiring who was knocking at that hour.  And he removed a barrier of his home shell leaving him open to danger even though he had a gun (which it was proven not a talisman with deadly accuracy)

My guess, his youth and lack of knowledge led him to make one silly mistake. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, you will blindly open your front door without suffering consequences but in this case, a fatality resulted.

Again, I am not here discussing or assigning blame, but to show this case as a teaching moment and to drill not to open your shell unless you are sure there is no threat on the other side.  Use both eyes and mouth to get identification and even though, be wary.

PS: I went over another case of opening door without checking and security equipment in a previous post.

Any barrier you can place between you and attackers is a good one. You shedding that barrier is not smart. That goes double in a place like Miami Beach which is becoming a gathering for people who feel they can do pretty much what they want. I have not followed much what is going on down there, but it seems the City Commission is tying the hands of cops in the name of profits. That is a strategy that has been tried before and will backfire.

From what I was able to see in the video, the driver opened the door. It looked like one of the three attackers hit the driver’s door and he took umbrage so he stopped and let the ego make a bet his body paid with interests. The diver could have stayed inside or simply drive away, but chose to confront offenders who touched his vehicle.

And no, even if you had a gun with him, the only thing he would have done is getting at least a charge of assault with a deadly weapon.  And here is a good place to remind people who pedestrians have the right of way in Florida in roadways, specially in crosswalks. You may want to check the provisions of Florida Statutes 316.130 to see the latitude they get.

Unchecked Ego will get you in trouble that little recitation about Stupid Places also comes to mind.