Bumped into ATF’s Firearms commerce in the USA. Lots of interesting stuff!

Top Machine Gun State: Texas with 33,548 units beating Florida (33,435) by measly 113 squirt guns. (Virginia came third with 32,685, don’t tell Governor Terry McAuliffe or he will crap in his pants.)

Top Silencer State: Again Texas with 130,767. Georgia comes second with a distant 59,942.

Top Destructive Device State: California with 245,524. Texas goes second with 200,870.

Top Short Barrel Rifle State: Texas again with 23,840. Florida does second with 14,872 .

Top State Short Barrel Shotgun: California with 14,872 followed by Pennsylvania with 12,715.

Top Any Other Weapon State: Texas with 6,740 and then California with 3,856.

Rhode Island, Delaware and Hawaii are at the bottom of the pile with NFA fun stuff. Some items are as low as in double digits only.

“This is alarming because domestic terrorism is alive and well,” (David A. ) Love said.  “It is such a problem that the U.S. Department of Justice recently predicted increases in violent acts by white extremists who are responding to a new reality in which people of color will become a majority in America.’

“At the same time,” Love said, “there is a vicious cycle created by rightwing politicians, the NRA and hate groups who stir up anger, fear and resentment over changing demographics and want their country back.  Ars

Source: Arson Suspected in Six Church Fires in St. Louis | Southern Poverty Law Center

But the truth turns out to be a mite different.

(CNN)A man has been charged with arson in two of the seven church fires that occurred in the St. Louis area during October, authorities said Friday.

David Lopez Jackson, 35, of St. Louis was arrested Thursday night and charged with two counts of second-degree arson, St. Louis Metropolitan Police Chief Sam Dotson said at a press conference.Dotson didn’t provide a motive, saying the investigation had not been completed.The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said in a press release that the fires don’t appear to be hate crimes. Most of the seven churches were attended by African-Americans.

Source: Arson charges filed against man in fires at two St. Louis churches – CNN.com

Please do get a very comfortable seating solution as we wait for an apology from the SPLC and Mr Love to the NRA and a biblical condemnation to the arsonist for his Hate Crime against religion.

Hat Tip to Craig K.

The”Hysterical Ladies Anti-Domestic Terror Society and Gunhumperbusting Guild”? Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that addressing a woman as “hysterical” was Freudian term that feminist hated with passion and would slice your parts if you dared use it.  But what do I know?

I do love the classy message:

My reply to their slogan is copies straight from Jim Belushi’s character in the movie Red Heat after being told something similar:

“No, I think I have a headache and good taste.”

We are really driving them mad, aren’t we? My weekend is made.

UPDATE: Awesome Twitter comment.

FTW

I’m going to double down on Miguel’s post.

A bit of tragic news hit the airwaves.  A little girl was choking in school.  An EMT with a private medical transport company was flagged down.  He stopped to help.  The girl had been choking too long and ended up brain dead, the EMT got suspended without pay for violating company policy.

I hate this story and love this story at the same time.  I hate it because of its tragic ending for the little girl.  I love it because it illustrates, as harshly as possible, life in a CSGV-esque utopia.

It’s not about the guns with the nannies and scolds.  Guns are a tool.  It is independence that these people detest.  A self reliant people do not need the government to come in and solve all of their problems.  Consequently, a self reliant people don’t need or want a big government.  Self reliance is in direct conflict with the nanny state.

So how does the nanny state make people less self reliant?  They take away the tools of self reliance.  Eventually the ability to help oneself wastes away from lack of use.

Why am I talking about guns and a government induced loss of self reliance and this little girl who choked to death.  Because it is the same mentality.  The article wonders why none of the girl’s teachers tried to help.  I can answer that.  My wife was a teacher.  Government union rules and risk aversion.  The opinion of the union was:

“You are not a medic, you are not trained to help, all you are going to do is make things worse, you can be held liable if you hurt the student trying to help, you can’t be held liable if the student dies while you were doing nothing.  DO NOTHING. DON’T HELP.  WAIT FOR THE EXPERTS.”

Teachers who violated this code of conduct were punished.  It is better to let a student die than help the student and risk making him/her worse.

Why was the EMT suspended?  Because doing good is not covered by their insurance and his company had the same stupid rules as the teachers, when it came to anybody who was not a paying client.  Better to let a bystander die than risk company liability.

Compare this to the actions of the armored car drivers during the North Hollywood Shootout who asked their company if they could use their armored car to provide cover for the officers who were helping the wounded.  The company said yes.  They were hailed as heroes.

This is what the CSGV advocates for in an active shooter scenario.  Don’t try and do anything yourself.  Attack the shooter and risk getting hurt.  Lay low and wait for the experts.  You can’t be blamed for getting killed if you did nothing.  Better to be a victim, dying on your knees, than to get shot trying to stop the killing.

People who have been disarmed, first physically then mentally, will do that… die on other knees waiting for help from the approved source.  The nanny state will honor these people as victims and create memorials to them.

Independent people will fight back.  A few may die in the process but more lives with be saved.  The nanny state will victim blame them for their own deaths.

Are you blinking hard? Re-reading the screen cap making sure you read it right? Trying to make sense of whomever was the idiot who wrote that? You are not the only one.

Now, it is not as stupid as it may look like. For most Americans, even many on the Liberal side of politics, the legal concept of Self defense is a sacred right not to be trampled by anybody. But what if that concept is put into shame? How about we slowly erode the principle that your life must be fought for against somebody that intends to take it? The idea is that eventually self-defense would become a dirty expression and soon after a dirty deed that must be tightly controlled by the Government.

The latest movement in our increasingly Beta Male/Female world is the concept of accusing somebody of shaming a particular type by way of your words or actions (Fill-The-Blank) Shaming is actually a misnomer because the person that is being shamed is the alleged violator, in this case Ben Carson for daring to say he would rather fight than be a passive receptacle of bullets. According to Everytown, if you dare not being a victim, you somehow are psychologically trampling on the feelings of all victims in this world. Don’t you know misery loves company? How dare you be different?

If you think I am full of it, allow me to point out that self-defense outside the US is not but a shadow of what we know and have here. The bar to prove self-defense is so high in many other countries that citizens find themselves trapped between the immediate threat of losing life or limb and the long-term threat of going to prison because the government decided that the bastard attacking you had more rights than you and therefore you should go to prison.

Maybe the youngins have not heard about the very illustrative case of Tony Martin in England since it happened 16 years ago (Holy crap, that long?.) One night in August of 1999, Tony Martin, a farmer from Norfolk in Jolly Old England, had his home broke in by a couple of criminals. Mr. Martin shot them with his shotgun as they were climbing the stairs of his residence and even after he warned them he was armed and intended to shoot. He did and killed one and wounded the other. Castle Doctrine, right? Hell the damn concept originated in England! Nope, Mr. Martin was tried and convicted to Life in Prison. And to add insult to injury, the burglar that got wounded sued Tony Martin for 15,000 pounds claiming loss of wages. And it gets better, the government gave the burglar taxpayers money so he could sue Mr. Martin because he was a victim of his shooting in self-defense.

Even the uber cool Brits lost their minds at the unfairness of the verdict. Appeals were introduced and rejected initially but eventually and using mental health issues (and no doubt a great dose of pressure from the outside the legal system) Martin’s sentence was reduced to 7 years and he was released early in 2003 for good behavior.

If the Martin case felt like a bomb among the Brits, in the US Gun Rights community had the impact of a tactical nuke. We were at the tail end of eight years of the Clinton Administration telling people that we should be more like England and that they were more advanced than us and the rednecks of the NRA, that England’s system was not only better but morally superior and we should adopt it fully. Then the Martin Case comes along and shows how legally corrupt and immoral the British Gun Control turned out to be.

Great Britain is done for. Even politicians promised to eliminate such cumbersome high bar for self-defense, they only paid lip service, gave that pig a shot of botox and some falsies. The the common Brit subject remains a victim of both the criminals and Her Majesty’s justice system. And that is the dream of the Gun Control Cabal: If confiscation fails, they will make you pay for daring saving your life.

We cannot allow them to do that.

PS: Found a somewhat recent article about Tony Martin. He is still dealing with all the crap courtesy of Her Majesty’s brand of “justice.”

Seen over at the Book of Face was this brilliance:

The responses went pretty much as you would expect, there were those who were somewhat pro gun, and those who… delved into the predictable territory of “Americans are stupid” and criticism of America’s gun culture.

Of course the “need” for assault rifles came up (i.e. why does anybody “need” them) and mandatory training was discussed.  Which resulted in typical pearl clutching.

Well, allow me to retort. 

The reason smart people go “f**king crazy and think the government is coming for [our] guns” is because that IS the end game for some politicians.  Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) said exactly that 20 years ago.  Don’t believe me, let her tell you herself.

When the NY SAFE act was passed, it included a provision to have all high capacity (over 10 round) magazines, including ones that had been previously grandfathered in, either turned into law enforcement or disposed of out of state.  The County of Los Angeles just passed a similar law.  Connecticut banned the sale of new high capacity mags.  Yes it’s true that magazines are not guns themselves, but they are a crucial part of the gun.  More importantly, it is a step in the direction of a confiscatory gun ban.  Get the mags first.  When people get used to that, get the guns next.  Notice how these laws all come with registration of certain, if not all, guns AND magazines.

Hillary Clinton praised Australia’s confiscatory gun ban during the DNC primary.  The article by VOX is almost giddy about Clinton wanting to confiscate guns.

Smart people see the politics of gun control like a game of chess.  It is played in small moves.

We want full 50 state CCW, that is one of our goals.  We can’t get that all at once.  We win concealed carry in Illinois, now all 50 states have a CCW law.  Next we have to win changing may issue state to shall issue. That is on the move in Maryland.  Once we have 50 state, or near 50 state, shall issue, wining national reciprocity will be easier.

We want to end the NFA.  States easing NFA restrictions has been a step in that direction.  Now there is a bill to take suppressors of the NFA.  If that passes, SBR’s and SBS’s will be next.

They want to take our guns away.  We know that.  They make it very clear that they don’t like the idea of independent armed Americans.  They know if they go for a nation wide gun ban there will be pushback.  Clinton won the Brady Bill and the Dems lost control of Congress.  So they are playing small ball.  Registration in the states they know they can get that.  Confiscatory magazine bans in states where they can get that too.  Ease people into accepting confiscation.  First take the mags then what?  Take the assault rifles?  Make a requirement for “bullet buttons” on handguns?

We are calling them out on their end game.  We don’t want to give them an inch.

This case came with my alerts for Stand Your Ground, I found interesting and did a bot of digging. If anything, serves as a good example of being wary about what gets published initially and what comes after everybody took a long breath and got the facts.

Same Newspaper website, same case:

This is from March 2014

James Terrance Sopenasky, 29, is charged with murder and two counts of attempted murder, said Assistant Chief Chris Butler.Kenneth Stephen Jackson Jr., 22, of Cedar Trace Drive was driving in the 3300 block of Cancun Drive with two other men when several rounds were fired at the vehicle about 6:30 p.m., Butler said.
Jackson was hit by one of the bullets, and his pickup truck continued down the road striking several mailboxes and a light pole, Butler said. He was found dead in the pickup truck and the two other men were not injured and scattered to get help.

Source: Jacksonville man charged with murder was in dispute with sister’s ex-boyfriend | jacksonville.com

And this is from 10/27/2015:

James Terrance Sopenasky, 30, faces a life sentence if he’s convicted of the first-degree murder of 22-year-old Kenneth Stephen Jackson Jr. Sopenasky also is charged with the attempted murders of two friends of Jackson.
Jackson drove to Sopenasky’s house intending to fight him March 25, 2014, after the two men had a confrontation earlier in the day. When he arrived and started walking toward Sopenasky’s house, Sopenasky fired several warning shots in the ground, his lawyer said. When Jackson got back in his car, Sopenasky shot into the car and hit Jackson three times in the back of the head.“Steven Jackson died as he was putting his truck in reverse driving away from this defendant,” said Assistant State Attorney Brian Brady during opening statements.

Source: Jacksonville trial begins for man accused of killing sister’s former boyfriend | jacksonville.com

Same basic set up, but different actions taken by both the defendant and the victim. I am not condemning the first reporter because for all we know, he got the info from the cops that might have been as uninformed of the details as he was. But it goes to show that all the facts and evidence needs to come in before we can render a somewhat studied opinion and that is something that the Opposition does not do and gets them burned more often than not.