According to Digital Trends, the Terradyne Gurkha RPV makes the “Hummer H1 look cuter than a Toyota Yaris,” and honestly, from the Gurkha’s exterior, we can’t argue with that. Like the original Hummer H1, the Gurkha is a civilian version of a military vehicle. It’s the ultimate go anywhere/flee from the zombie apocalypse type of vehicle.

Source: The Gurkha is Here to Save You From the Apocalypse – Ford-Trucks.com

Or to drive in the highways and byways of Magic City in regular days.  I like the ground clearance, you can almost park a properly crushed Prius underneath it.

The second, related, piece of legislation that I’d like to see passed is a federal anti-trafficking bill. Sen. Gillibrand recently introduced legislation that would make it a federal crime to traffic guns; it’s shocking that this isn’t already a federal crime. Just the other week, a man was indicted for running guns from Georgia to NYC, and even our local prosecutors are calling for a federal anti-trafficking statute so they can charge them with a federal crime.

Source: The People in Your Neighborhood: Dumbo Mom Demands Action for Gun Sense | Brooklyn Heights Blog

That is the quote from Jaime Pessin (pictured left), honcho for the New York chapter of Moms Demand.

Now, I am confused. I thought 18 U.S. Code 922 covered pretty much illegal transactions with firearms at interstate trafficking level and even local. I don’t expect that some mommy in NY knows about this particular federal law, specially since she gets her talking points from Bloomberg and Co. but Senator Gillibrand should be able to ask one of her assistants and check to see if that particular line of bullcrap is real or not.

Unless, of course, we are moving goalposts again and “trafficking” is a cute way to target interstate transactions among private individuals via places like Gun Broker. We know that the Opposition gets all moist in the nether regions about the “unlicensed dealers” (private citizens) selling their guns to other “unlicensed dealers” across the nation, even though such transactions have to go through a Federal Firearms License holder. They would love to have that stopped in its tracks not because those transactions are tied to any criminality, but because they represent freedom.

We are going to have to keep an eye on this one.

I’ve covered before the fact that guns are flying off the shelves in Israel gun stores as a result of the wave of stabbings by Palestinians going on in Israel.

As is turns out, the same thing is going on in Austria.  Handgun laws in Austria, and Europe in general, are more restrictive than in Israel, so the gun buy is mostly shotguns and hunting rifles which are easier to obtain… but still.

The European presses are pushing that this is in response to fear of Syrian refugees, and that that fear is unfounded.

Well… what we are learning is that the refugee camps are a hotbed of rape and child abuse.  That particular brand of violence has been on the rise in Europe for some time, with Sweden’s rate of rape having gone through the roof.  There have been reports of Christian refugees being murdered in the refugee camps by Islamic refugees.  Crime in Europe has shot up dramatically, and in some if not many cases, the local governments have played it down or covered it up as to not be perceived as racist or Islamophobic for targeting the minority population responsible.

This is how (I believe) Europe as we know it will end.  European Democratic Socialism is sustained by the belief that if the European people hand over (nearly) half their income in taxes and much of the control they have over their lives to the government, the government will take care of them.  Of course this is unreasonable on it’s face, but the European people have a cultural history of being subjects not free citizens and a strong sense of risk aversion.  These two cultural traits make it easier for Europe to embrace Democratic Socialism.  But now the veil is coming down.  The governments of Europe can’t and/or won’t protect their citizens from Islamic immigrant crime, rape, child molestation, and violence.  The Welfare State that Europeans pride themselves on is being strained to the breaking point as immigrants and refugees collect benefits from a system they never paid into.  Immigrants and refugees, who are usually young and able bodied, are collecting more than retired Europeans who paid into the system their whole lives.

The people of Austria are figuring out they can’t trust their government to protect them any more.  They are buying guns to protect themselves.  As the violence increases, the European governments won’t be able to keep a lid on the crisis.  When enough Europeans catch on to the fact that they have been abandoned by the socialist government they trusted, the system will collapse.

In-Store video taping is normal. We are now living in a society that has constant eyes and they extend to the inside of gun stores for the most part and has no bearing on our rights. However this is not what CSGV is trying to say and what drove the last gun store out of SanFran: it is that every purchase must be video taped, attached to the particular sale and kept in a data base for Law Enforcement.

This costs money and I can imagine that the extra work went against the slim profit margin that the store had. Of course, the video taping itself does help as much as gun tracing does in solving crimes: zero. It is just another wound in the Death By Thousand Cuts that the Opposition loves to inflict.

Florida presented an interesting problem for WalMart when it made its deal with Bloomberg as we have a statute that forbids any database of firearms other than the Federal.

No state governmental agency or local government, special district, or other political subdivision or official, agent, or employee of such state or other governmental entity or any other person, public or private, shall knowingly and willfully keep or cause to be kept any list, record, or registry of privately owned firearms or any list, record, or registry of the owners of those firearms.
Florida Statutes 790.335 (2)

and

(4) PENALTIES.—(a) Any person who, or entity that, violates a provision of this section commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

That is 5 years in prison and $5,000 in fines. No exception for people working for the government and no government funds can be used to pay the fines, they come out of their pockets.

I contacted Wal-Mart back when they made the deal with Bloomberg and MAIG (that is when MAIG allegedly was something of importance) and asked them how would they balance their compromise with the law, knowing what the law said and that they would end up placing workers in a position of breaking the law and ending up in prison or fined heavily.  What I got back was a terse email which basically stated that they abide by the laws of the State of Florida while doing their corporate best to assure customer safety. My take is that somebody in legal told them “Y’all done screw up. Can’t force the minions to do database or we will get sued for forcing our workers to break the law. Don’t say squat and don’t do that sh** either.”

If I were a suspicious man, I would bet that Wal-Mart dropped or never quite implemented the Bloomberg deal other than keeping video unattached to any specific sales and for certain amount of time and only accessing it upon request of a LEO investigation which would be what anybody in any store of any kind of product sales would do.

All in all it’s been a rough month for the guns, made even more difficult by the fact that after the Republicans decided the 2nd Amendment trumped Benghazi as a campaign issue, Hillary shot right back and said that she was ready, willing and able to take on the NRA.  So the question has to be asked: How come, as Brady’s Dan Gross says, we seem to have reached a “tipping point” in the debate over guns?

Here it is short and sweet.  Everyone’s sick of the NRA.  Sick of the killings, sick of the loss of life, sick of the blind devotion to the 2nd Amendment and sick of all those sacred gun ‘rights.’ Wayne-o is going online today to remind his members that Obama wants to take away their guns.  It’s a hollow argument falling on increasingly deaf ears.

Source: It Hasn’t Been A Good Month For The NRA And Things Might Get Worse. | mikethegunguy

Of course, that “Everyone’s sick of the NRA” is just a bit of wishful thinking, specially since the latest Gallup poll shows that the NRA enjoys the support of the majority of Americans.

Mike The Gun Guy is calling premature victory because a couple od cases went south in court. Him and the average Gun Control idjit do not understand we expect that to happen because they had happened before and they will happen again.

But instead of curling up in a fetal position and raise out fist to the skies demanding that a vengeful deity come save us, we pick up ourselves, dust off our clothes and go back into the scrum for some more fighting. We love a good fight.

The Opposition is all aroused at the latest Gun Control wave of talking from the Democrat nominees for President. They think it means this time is for sure they will have their gun control measures passed before the end of the year. Only a couple of problems with that: It ain’t gonna happen this year or the next. All this talk is just Monica’s ex-boyfriend’s wife and Senile White Male Communist getting a rise out of the base for the Primaries. They need the Thinkprogress and assorted groups to vote for them and cinch the nomination and you only do that by being more lefty than Stalin.

I am willing to bet that once that the Primaries are over, the Gun Control noise from the Dem Electoral Camp will all but disappear from the radar. If the pundits are right and Hillary is the nominee, you will have a better chance to have her talk about the Rose Law Form missing files and Vince Foster than have her come strong against Gun Rights. She is not stupid, she knows what it cost to the party and to Al Gore to piss gun owners off. If she could get away with waving a flintlock musket above her head, she would do so.

Ours is a war of attrition. It works, we wear them out because we have the numbers and the long-term vision. They are the microwave crowd, they need eternal solutions in the time it takes to heat up a burrito during commercials or they get stupid and desperate.  And no all of their followers are One Issue voters, but will vote one year for Universal Health Care and the next year to kill it after they got their new and increased payments with 50% less coverage and higher deductible.

And as for us:

WE  ALWAYS  VOTE  GUNS.

Learn it. Love it. Live it.

I caught this on the Book of Face.

I love this idea.  I really do.  Nothing irritates people like than when somebody takes a perfectly fun holiday and ruins it with politics.

Nobody likes the cousin who goes on and on about the plight of industrialized farm turkeys and why he/she’s a vegan at Thanksgiving.

Halloween is about two things, scaring kids and CANDY.  This just shows everybody that Shannon Watts and her crew are a bunch of joyless scolds who want to ruin everybody else’s fun.

This is more of a downer than Trick or Treating for UNICEF.

The NRA should respond by handing out full bars.

I can’t wait until Shannon figures out how to ruin Christmas.

Shannon Watts of Zionsville founded the group “Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America.” She talked about the prospect of armed people in stores and restaurants — and her group’s efforts to change policy.

Watts said what started as an online discussion turned into a worldwide movement with more than 3 million members.

Source: Zionsville woman lobbies for gun control on ‘Meredith’ – 13 WTHR Indianapolis

I must say I was shocked to see that Moms Demand had that many people. We know that they are not paying members like the NRA but only Social Media presence, but still, that is quite a substantial amount. So I decided to check and followed the “moving goalposts” and “Quick, fill the hole and take the picture from another angle” method of definition used by Shannon and Company and included just about anything related to Moms Demand.

MDA Facebook:  446,753 likes.
MDA Twitter: 36,900 (aprox.)
Shannon Watts Facebook: 1,172.
Shannon Watts Twitter 11,900 (aprox.)
Mike Bloomberg Twitter 940,000.
Mike Bloomberg Facebook: 267,612
Everytown Twitter: 56,900 (aprox.)
Everytown Facebook: 913,659.
Sub Total: 2,674,896.

Minus fake Twitter accounts:
Mike Bloomberg Twitter fake followers: 288,553
MDA Twitter fake accounts: 2,879.
Everytown Twitter fake accounts: 8,192.
Shannon Watts Twitter fake accounts 795.
Sub Total: 300,419

Total: 2,374,477.

I could not find a way to figure out fake Facebook accounts. I am sure there is one done internally since they have a program to “add friends” but those numbers are not available to the dirty masses.

So, being generous to an excess by adding peripheral groups and assuming that people follow on Twitter or Facebook but not on both, Moms Demand have 2,374,477 “followers,” 600,000+ short of her stated number.

Standing alone, Moms Demand do not even break the half a million followers mark. And we are talking unpaid follower, not due-paying members.

But they are fueled by lies, otherwise that bus would not move.