Month: October 2022

This is why we can’t have nice things.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The same firearm was found during multiple security screenings at a Nashville International Airport checkpoint Monday.

At around 11 a.m., officials say a loaded Glock 9mm handgun was discovered in a passenger’s carry-on bag. Airport police took possession of the bag and escorted the passenger out of the checkpoint area.

After the interaction with police, the passenger returned to the checkpoint area and officers found the same gun, which was unloaded at that time.

Police once again returned to the checkpoint, interviewed the passenger and ensured he did not have his gun during his third and final screening prior to his flight.

 

Passenger tries to bring handgun through BNA security checkpoint twice (wkrn.com)

That is one dense mother-rucker.  Anybody wants to bet he left the gun in his parked vehicle and probably in the glove compartment or under the seat?

 

Alec Baldwin Settlement

Alec Baldwin killed Halyna Hutchins on the set of the B movie “Rust”.

He drew a single action army revolver from a shoulder holster, pointed it at Halyna, pulled back the hammer and pressed the trigger. The gun fired, killing Halyna and injuring the person behind her.

Alec is claiming that as an actor he is to stupid to understand that you always treat a gun as if it is loaded. That you don’t point it at anything you are not willing to kill/destroy. That you make sure of your target and what is beyond. That you don’t put your finger on the trigger until you are ready to pull the trigger.

He failed all four.

There are internet fablist that will claim that it wasn’t Alec’s responsibility to make sure that the gun was unloaded. That it was the responsibility of other people on set to make sure that the stupid actor never did anything dangerous with the gun.

It turns out that there were a lot of things going wrong on the set. The expectation is that there is no live ammunition on set. You shouldn’t trust this, but that is the expectation. The expectation is that you should be able to visibly verify that a firearm is loaded with inert cartridges or blanks.

The inert cartridges we use are either solid aluminum with a rubber nub where the primer should go, or they are actual shells with a black rubber nub where the primer should go AND an airsoft BB in the case. Shake the case and you can hear the rattle.

Somewhere along the line all of the safety measures failed and Alec was handling a firearm with live ammunition in it. And then he pointed that gun at Halyna and pulled the trigger.

He has since told multiple people that he never pulled the trigger. That the gun just went off. It must have been the hammer just falling.

All of which is highly unlikely to be true. In a rare case of the FBI doing what it is suppose to do, they examined the pistol in question and stated that it was working as designed and could not be fired unless the hammer was pulled back, the trigger was pressed and the hammer was free to fall.

Alec did all of those things, we know this because he shot and killed a woman.

The Hutchins family sued the Alec Baldwin. In multiple interviews Alec claimed that he had no responsibility because it was the production company… Except that Alec was one of the producers.

In the last week or so, the district attorney in the case has stated that he was going to be seeking criminal charges. Hopefully Alec is one of the ones to be charged.

Amazingly Alec and the Hutchins family reached a settlement just before charges are filed. If charges had been filed, and Alec lost in criminal court, the odds of him losing in civil court went way up.

As per normal, the terms of the settlement are undisclosed and unlikely to leak.

And the film will now go forward. With Halyna’s husband as an executive producer. With Alec Baldwin still starring in the movie.

Of course there is the question of whether they will be able to find anybody that is willing to be down range of Alec when he has a gun in his hands.

Google returns multiple hits on alec baldwin settlement

Headlines without Context (or truth)

Santa Rosa man arrested on suspicion of possessing loaded ‘ghost gun’

Given this headline some questions leap to mind, such as “why did they suspect him of possessing a loaded gun?” “Why did the suspect it was a ‘ghost gun’?” And maybe the biggest, since when can you be arrested because they suspect you of something?

The image the Santa Rosa police department released shows a glock like firearm with a magazine with at least on full metal jacketed round.

Hmm, that sounds to me like “arrested for having a loaded firearm”, not suspected.

The firearm could very well be an 80% frame that has been finished.

Digging a bit deeper we find that the suspect was arrested after a traffic stop. The old statement that if a cop follows your car long enough he will find a reason to pull you over seems to be in action here. Given that “members” (plural) of the “Special Enforcement Team” did the stop.

The old black and white pulls the car over and six more vehicles appear out of nowhere with flashing lights.

They found the gun in the trunk of the car. They also claim that there was a 30 round extended magazine for the firearm. Of course they only show a standard magazine.

Regardless, diving into any headline with the word “ghost gun” is likely to find more misinformation than reallity.

This dude was likely a bad guy. They had reason to suspect him of carrying something that he was not legally supposed to have at that time and place. So they waited till they could stop him for a traffic violation and in the process searched his vehicle and found a gun.

Maybe if we all had Constitutional Carry this sort of stop would not happen.

I do want bad people arrested, charged, convicted and punished correctly. If you can’t do it correctly, then the police have no business attempting it.

Santa Rosa man arrested on suspicion of possessing loaded ‘ghost gun’

Media fact checkers are the biggest liars

The new narrative used in attacking Governor DeSantis is that he failed to call for an evacuation of Lee County until it was too late.

DeSantis has pushed back saying that the projections at the time didn’t show Lee County in the strike path of the danger zone of the hurricane until 21 hours before landfall.  At which point he told Lee County to evacuate.

DeSantis is correct about the timeline of the storm and evacuation orders, but the Leftist media has to do their thing and destroy him anyway.

The worst of these types are fact checkers, especially the assholes over at Politifact.

 

Most of Lee County was outside the cone of prediction, including most of Lee County’s population.  But a small, sparsely populated island hanging off the corner of the County pit into the gulf was in the path, therefore Lee County was ackchyually in the path of the hurricane and do DeSantis was mostly wrong and completely evil.

This is such mendacious bullshit.

The purpose isn’t to fact check DeSantis, the purpose is to destroy DeSantis with hacks operating under the cover of impartial fact checkers.

 

About that New York Brand…

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) – A briefing meant to show off the good in New York City may have cast a not-so-good light on the Midwest.

NYC Mayor Eric Adams briefed the media on Tuesday about his recent trips to Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. He said in both locations, he said the people welcomed him because they recognized New York City and its “brand,” something he said a place like Kansas lacks.

“We have a brand. And when people see it, it means something,” said Mayor Adams. “You know when we go there…Kansas doesn’t have a brand. When you go there, okay, you’re from Kansas. But New York has a brand, and that brand means diversity,” the mayor continued.

New York City mayor: ‘Kansas doesn’t have a brand’ (kwch.com)

Oh yeah, we understand your brand. You can keep it.

 

New York is going to screw this guy over

 

From the article in the Tweet:

The man, only identified as Kem, told WKTV that he used a $200 3D printer to print the lower receivers and drove over 6 hours to sell them back to the police.

When Kem arrived, he told officers he had 110 lower receivers to turn in and had to negotiate a price for the homemade parts, which are considered a firearm by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives.

Eventually, officials agreed to give him $21,000 in gift cards.

A spokesperson for New York Attorney General Letitia James blasted Kem for taking advantage of the gun buyback event, which was sponsored by her office.

“It’s shameful that this individual exploited a program that has successfully taken thousands of guns off the streets to protect our communities from gun violence. We have partnered with local police throughout the state to recover more than 3,500 guns, and one individual’s greedy behavior won’t tarnish our work to promote public safety. We have adjusted our policies to ensure that no one can exploit this program again for personal gain,” the statement said.

“I’m sure handing over $21,000 in gift cards to some punk kid after getting a bunch of plastic junk was a rousing success,” Kem said. “Gun buybacks are a fantastic way of showing, number one, that your policies don’t work, and, number two, you’re creating perverse demand. You’re causing people to show up to these events, and they don’t actually reduce crime whatsoever.”

I see a lot of people going all “yassss queen” for this guy.

I understand the sentiment, but he fucked over New York for $21,000.

Do you honestly think they will let him get away with that.

I can guarantee that the AG’s office is figuring out what to charge him with.

Remember, NY has one of the strongest ghost gun bans in the country, so if he didn’t serialize them, that’s 110 ghost guns.

If he did, I could see him being charged for manufacturing without a license.

The state won’t take it on the chin and let themselves be embarrassed by a guy with a 3D printer.