And the way it is portrayed, you think it is only about guns.
A new bill filed earlier this month could make it easier for convicted felons to have their voting and gun rights restored.
The bill, HB 903, was filed on Dec. 6 by State Rep. Cord Byrd (R-Neptune Beach) would allow judges to restore the rights of felons after they’ve completed prison sentences and probation.
Florida currently prohibits convicted felons from owning firearms or voting.
My personal take? It will not go anywhere and it will bring down the current push for allowing felons to vote. The bill has some things I like such as taking in consideration the petitioner’s past which would make it more palatable to other members of the Legislature and the public.
Personally and on initial uneducated view, I like this bill but I doubt it will pass. Democrats like felons to vote, but not that much. And allowing them to own guns again? The ungrateful bastards may even vote for the Republicans!
If you lied to buy a firearm, fear not the feds.
Your chances of being prosecuted by the Justice Department for falsifying information to illegally buy a gun are almost zero.
Reviews by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System in fiscal 2017 led to 112,000 gun-purchase denials because people were in forbidden categories, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The Justice Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) investigated 12,700 of those cases.
How many of the investigated cases resulted in prosecutions?
Twelve.
That’s 0.09 percent of the cases ATF investigated.
I think I have been asking since I started this blogs the same question: “If the Brady Background checks have stopped 2-3 million prohibited persons from buying guns, where are the 2-3 million prosecutions?
The GAO’s report said U.S. attorneys “generally do not accept and prosecute denial cases that do not involve aggravating circumstances, as these cases can require significant effort for prosecutors relative to the short length of punishment and may offer little value to public safety because the offender does not obtain the firearm, compared to other cases involving gun violence.”
Allow me to translate: This cases are not politically sexy. They do not help get promotions nor allow you to rub elbows with the Washington elite, therefore we don’t prosecute them. They are a waste of time.
Calling the dearth of prosecutions “shocking,” the Brady Campaign’s Gardiner said she agrees with Sessions that existing federal gun laws should be enforced.
Ya think? Enforce the law that has the name of your founder in it? But I am going to throw a wild guess here and say people in the Brady Campaign knew this was going on a long time ago.
The article mentions ATF saying they need more funding, more people and the usual bureaucratic bullcrap. Guys, we know it is BS. You have a felon entering a gun store that probably has video surveillance plus the people working there as witnesses. You have the individual filling and signing on his own hand a form 4473 which states the penalties for trying to buy a gun as a prohibited person and you are telling me that a slam dunk case with direct evidence and witnesses needs more personnel and more money to make it? Holy crap, any defense attorney will tell you to go ahead throw yourself at the mercy of the court.
Gun Control is never about the guns and all about the control even if it means never enforcing the laws.
Silence is golden for a variety of reasons, one of them is OpSec.
And in my experience, Chest Thumpers hide at the first sound of danger and will betray his buddies in order to remain alive and without cattle prods associated with free proctoscopy.
As predicted. Done for the day. Effing Moen includes a template for a cover plate so you can make cuts in the ceramic tile and fit the valve while covering the original holes from the two knob set up. According to the valve instructions, depending on the thickness of the wall, you may need to cut a hole 3.5 inches in diameter or 4.5 inches if the wall is too thick. I admit I did not check and cut the hole that came with the template and… nothing fit. I measure the hole and the sucker is 3 inches. No, not the hell again, not another template that does not correspond with the instructions and measurements. So I measure and guess what? 3 motherranting inches in diameter. How hard is to check up the measurements of a template?
I measured the hole again, made the marks, grabbed my kinda-dremel tool, cut the excess ceramic time and presented the valve and accoutrements. Perfect fit.
My back is screaming bloody murder, I am trailing ceramic tile dust, I need a coffee and my humor is black ichor foul.
“Since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature?”
“Have you ever faced discipline or entered into a settlement related to this kind of conduct?”
The contents of the letter have been closely guarded by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, as well as California Rep. Anna Eshoo, who originally received the letter and shared it with Feinstein, according to sources familiar with the matter. But whispers of what it contains have made the rounds across Capitol Hill over the past week.
The attention on it burst into the public when The Intercept published a report on the rumors surrounding the letter on Wednesday.
“This matter has been referred to the FBI for investigation,” Sen. Dick Durbin told BuzzFeed News when asked about the letter on Thursday.
In a statement later Thursday, Feinstein confirmed that she had referred the letter to “federal investigative authorities.”
“I have received information from an individual concerning the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court,” Feinstein said. “That individual strongly requested confidentiality, declined to come forward or press the matter further, and I have honored that decision. I have, however, referred the matter to federal investigative authorities.”
The letter took a circuitous route to Feinstein, the top-ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee. It purportedly describes an incident that was relayed to someone affiliated with Stanford University, who authored the letter and sent it to Rep. Anna Eshoo, a Democrat who represents the area.
Different sources provided different accounts of the contents of the letter, and some of the sources said they themselves had heard different versions, but the one consistent theme was that it describes an incident involving Kavanaugh and a woman while they were in high school. Kept hidden, the letter is beginning to take on a life of its own.
The woman who is the subject of the letter is now being represented by Debra Katz, a whistleblower attorney who works with #MeToo survivors. Joseph Abboud, an attorney at Katz’s firm, said that the firm was declining to comment. Emma Crisci, a spokesperson for Eshoo, declined to comment on the letter her office sent to Feinstein, saying that the office has a confidentiality policy when it comes to constituent casework. A spokesperson for Feinstein did not respond to requests for comment.
There you have it. More than 33 years ago, Brett Kavanagh may have been inappropriate with a girl. We have no idea what that was, because details have not be provided, but it is being left up to our sordid imaginations.
Enter Senator Hirono’s question: “Since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature?”
Well… if Kavanaugh was 18 in high school then he would be a legal adult. If this woman accuses him of doing something that today qualifies as harassment, regardless of what the social standards were 33 years ago, than by answering the Senator’s question with “no” he committed perjury.
This is the dirtiest trick they could play.
Watch it, a Democrat is going to mention perjury regarding the Hirono question before the end of the week.
They have had this shit planned from the beginning. It was a perjury trap and Kavanaugh and the rest of the GOP who just aren’t as conniving as the Democrats fell right into it.
Yesterday I covered an MSNBC panel that called the verbal attacks of Senator Susan Collins and her staff “passionate.”
MSNBC has decided to double down with the help of Senate Democrats.
Senator Chris Coons glossed over the really horrible things that Chuck Todd said was happening to Republican Senators including Senator Collins, saying that it was “well justified” because these people have deeply irrational fears brought on by media hysteria.
Democrat Sen defends “well justified” harassment of GOP Senators over Kavanaugh pic.twitter.com/ZTtrBUGHsJ
There is no way this is not going to lead to actual violence.
Remember when the Mayor of Baltimore tacitly endorsed the Freddie Gray riots by giving people “room to destroy” and they set fires and burned down city blocks?
What do you think will happen when the leaders on the Left give tacit support for anti Republican violence by saying rape threats are just people being passionate?
