Wow. I think he needs less fiber in his diet and maybe a couple of shots of Cuban coffee to grow at least one and some cheese to bind him.

Who is this guy?

According to his mini-bio in the Twin Cities Pioneer:

 He came to the Pioneer Press in 2005 and brings a testy East Coast attitude to St. Paul beat reporting.

You mean a wuss who talks a lot but shits his pants at loud sounds.. Gotcha!

Democrats and burning stuff.

Gun industry sees banks as new threat to 2nd Amendment

That damned NRA.  Why are they so paranoid?

With Gary Ramey’s fledgling gun-making business taking off in retail stores, he decided to start offering one of his handguns for sale on his website.

That didn’t sit well with the company he used to process payments, and they informed him they were dropping his account. Another credit card processing firm told him the same thing: They wouldn’t do business with him.

The reason? His business of making firearms violates their policies.

Oh, that’s a little different.  Gary signed up with these credit card service providers in good faith and they decided his legal and Constitutionally protected products were problematic.

In the wake of high-profile mass shootings, corporate America has been taking a stand against the firearms industry amid a lack of action by lawmakers on gun control. Payment processing firms are limiting transactions, Bank of America stopped providing financing to companies that make AR-style guns, and retailers like Walmart and Dick’s Sporting Goods imposed age restrictions on gun purchases.

Business decided that they were more interested in activism than business.  See Starbucks’ line of homeless shelters and Target’s line of peepshows for that.

This does not bode well.

The moves are lauded by gun-safety advocates but criticized by the gun industry that views them as a backhanded way of undermining the Second Amendment. Gun industry leaders see the backlash as a real threat to their industry and are coming to the conclusion that they need additional protections in Congress to prevent financial retaliation from banks.

Of course anti gun bigots gun safety activists love this.  They have no honor and are fine with all other sorts of lying and cheating to get their way.

It’s not just an attack on guns, it’s an attack on business.  A person takes out a loan and goes through all the work of starting a legal company and then the bank decides to destroy that person financially.  How can a business owner pay back his creditors if he can’t collect payment?

“If a few banks say ‘No, we’re not going to give loans to gun dealers or gun manufacturers’, all of a sudden the industry is threatened and the Second Amendment doesn’t mean much if there are no guns around,” said Michael Hammond, legal counsel for Gun Owners of America. “If you can’t make guns, if you can’t sell guns, the Second Amendment doesn’t mean much.”

The Lefts should be used to this argument.  It is a lot like the justification they use to keep state agencies from regulating abortion clinics claiming how can a woman exercise her right to abortion if there are no clinics to do it.  Except of course that the Second Amendment is very clear in its intent.

The issue has already gotten the attention of the Republican who is chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho sent letters criticizing Bank of America and Citigroup, which decided to restrict sales of firearms by its business customers, over their new gun rules in the wake of the Florida high school shooting in February.

“We should all be concerned if banks like yours seek to replace legislators and policy makers and attempt to manage social policy by limiting access to credit,” Crapo wrote to Citigroup’s chief executive.

It’s more than that, which is why I don’t accept the “this is a job for the free market” solution.  Banks in America receive a huge amount of support from the government.  The amount of regulation by the government makes locks out new competition from small upstarts.  The government provides security and protection for the big banks and billions of dollars in contracts.  Then there was the Bailout.

The fact is the line between big banks and the Federal Government has blurred in some places.  If the government has decided that you are “too big to fail” and your executives who got stupid greedy and caused the biggest financial catastrophe since the Great Depression don’t need to go to prison, and instead force mergers that protect the banks than the goverment has interfered in the free market too much for the free market to be a solution.

“Companies by and large avoid these issues like the plague and they only get involved — whether they’re credit card companies or airlines — when they feel like doing nothing is as bad as doing something and they feel completely stuck,” said Timothy D. Lytton, professor at Georgia State University’s College of Law and author of “Suing the Gun Industry: A Battle at the Crossroads of Gun Control and Mass Torts.”

The banks are playing by the New Rules of “everything is political.”  It’s bad.  Also, thanks for getting a total anti-gun person to weigh in as the voice of reason.

The gun industry acknowledges that there’s nothing requiring companies from doing business with gun manufacturers or dealers. Monthly reports from the federal government show background checks to purchase a firearm are up over last year so far, so the early actions apparently have not put a dent in sales.

Still, the industry believes it needs stronger laws against financial retaliation in the future.

Because the gun industry is being singled out.  In 2016, there were over 10,000 deaths from alcohol impaired drivers, just shy of the 11,000 non suicide gun deaths.  DUI was a leading killer of young people, more than gun violence.  I don’t see credit card companies denying banking services to micro brews or liquor stores.

More regulations are necessary for an industry that receives so much support from the government and taxpayers.

“We may have to seek legislation to make sure it can’t be done and that you can’t discriminate against individuals from lawful exercise of a constitutional right,” said Larry Keane, senior vice president and legal counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, which represents gunmakers. “Imagine if banks were to say you can’t purchase books or certain books aren’t acceptable. That would be problematic and I don’t think anyone would stand for that kind of activity by the banking industry.”

He’s right.

This isn’t the NRA picking on the banks.  This is the NRA standing up for people getting picked on by the banks.  From the title of the article, you’d never know that.

And yeah, I get it.  A lot of industries are over regulated and free market competition is great.  It is.

But we’re not talking about one baker who will bake gay wedding cakes competing for business against a baker to won’t.

Th’s is way bigger than that.

To put it bluntly:

If nearly a trillion dollars in tax money, some of which I contributed to, was used to keep you afloat – if tax dollars are used to protect your industry – if whole sectors of the government exist to maintain your interests – you have no right to restrict my civil liberties with my money.

(CNN) – After finding a gun in a sofa at IKEA, a child fired the loaded weapon in the store, prompting an investigation of the incident.
Earlier that day, a customer at the Fishers, Indiana, store sat down on the couch to test it out, CNN affiliate WTTV reported.
When he got up to keep shopping, he didn’t realize his gun had fallen out of his pants.
Later, a group of kids sat down on the sofa and found the gun, Fishers police told WTTV. One of them pulled the trigger and fired a single shot.

Child fires loaded gun found in a couch at IKEA

I am going with crappy holster in the 3 O’clock position or Small of the Back carry with or without holster. And crappy holster could be a very expensive one that simply does not properly secure a gun either by being the wrong model, a generic model or the user screwed with it while “adjusting it.”

If you have carried for any amount of time, you should know that sitting is probably one of the most tricky things you can do.  An armchair too close to the body and your holster gets caught.  If you are careful and understand you are carrying a weapon, you will feel it shifting and take appropriate action. But if you are carry a gun like it is a dress accessory, you end up being the idiot that lost his gun at an Ikea.

There is a simple initial test to see if your holster has at least a basic level of normal retention: Place your unloaded sidearm in the holster and turn upside down. If it falls, you have two choices: If it has a way to adjust it (tension screws) do so till the gun remain in the holster when upside down. If it will not secure the gun, get rid of it. Next and with the gun still upside down inside the holster, shake it like you were a maraca player having a fit. Again, if it falls, adjust it or dispose of it. (See the bottom of the post for update)

If you carry outside the waistband, I strongly suggest you do so with a holster that covers the muzzle of your gun.

I was a fan of yaqui holsters till the day the arm of a very tight-fitting chair dislodged the gun from the holster. I managed to catch it with my elbow before it went all the way out of the holster, but the lesson was learned. All my carry holsters are Close End.

And I want to go back to Clint Smith’s words about carrying: It should be comforting, not comfortable. If you are carrying a gun and you do not feel any kind of feedback allowing you to forget about it, you are bound for trouble.

15-20 years ago, there were few good holster makers and even fewer that understood what was required to safely carry a gun. Today the market is full of offerings with great quality and price, so there is no reason why you should compromise. Invest in a good holster that will keep you from being “the idiot that left a gun at Ikea.”

UPDATE: Add this to the upside/down test, that means do both and if the gun falls in any of the cases, DO NOT ATTEMP TO CATCH IT!

Thanks to OldDog

I would suggest a revision to your upside down and shaking it retention test. If you do this with an unloaded gun, the results won’t be the same as a loaded one due to the weight difference. Do this test over a bed or couch with at least a loaded magazine to be more accurate.

No CGI here.

I took screen grabs of this just in case Twitter tries and memory hole it.

So this guy decided that Trump supporters are Nazis and therefore vermin and so he is fully justified in sounding like a Nazi when talking about them.

Except everything he asserts is wrong.

I’m still trying to figure out where these gay concentration camps are and I haven’t seen CNN report that ICE is arresting people en masse for having Hispanic sounding names.

Yes, there are problems with family separation and the solutions are not easy, but this isn’t the same ballpark as Nazisim.  It’s not even the same sport.

That is irrelevant because HE HATES YOU and he through of you as vermin long before the immigration issue became the Two Minute Hate du jour, this was just his rationale to let the hate out.

I didn’t vote for Trump.  I’ve come around on him most of the way because of things like taxes, Israel, and Korea.  I know that I will be lumped in with the MAGA crowd if this guy has his way because I am a Republican and don’t full throatedly hate Trump.  Remember, the grandkids of Germans who married Jews were sent to the camps too.

My people have been called vermin before.  The actual word they used was “untermensch.”

I swore if it happened again, I would be ready.

I have 3,000 rounds of 5.56 in my garage, and 2,000 of 45 and 9mm each.

That’s a start.

Stolen from @Tactical_review