The gold-standard “national statistics” status has been withdrawn from police recorded crime figures following repeated allegations that some of the quarterly published figures have been subject to “a degree of fiddling”.

The UK Statistics Authority said it had taken the decision as a result of “accumulating evidence” that the underlying data on crimes recorded by the police may be unreliable.

via Police crime figures lose official status over claims of fiddling | UK news | theguardian.com.

But wait….it gets better!

The allegations have included claims that the Metropolitan police have understated sexual offences by as much as 25%. MPs have heard allegations that fiddling techniques have included downgrading offences to less serious crimes or persuading victims not to make a complaint, while in some cases crimes were only recorded if they were solved. Other incidents were kept completely off the books if an offender could not be traced, they have been told.

I guess the mount of dirt got too big under the rug and somebody noticed.

And Tom did… I should have been a bit more specific 😀

“Remington reps displayed the R51  9 mm +P pistol.    It indeed has a very low bore axis.     Trigger breaks cleanly but neither the Red Haired Devil nor I could feel a reset during trigger return.
The aluminum alloy frame is comfortable.     Should sell like hotcakes.
Tom.”

And now for something weird: New Taurus, one inch barrel revolver with titanium & aluminum snubbie.

Yes, the plastic place comes with the gun.  It is rated for +P ammunition. Allegedly the lightest snub nose in the market? Physics applications against the hand are going to be interesting.

Soon to be exported to local Gun Stores everywhere!

Via American Snipers.org

Fleissig told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that the seats were folded down when she picked up the SUV, and she didn’t look in the back until two days later.

When she and her daughter saw the bag, they looked for an ID. They found the gun.

Her daughter unzipped the bag and said, “ ‘Oh my God, it’s a gun.’ I said, ‘I think I’m going to throw up,’ ” Fleissig told the paper.

via Wife of Miami Dolphins’ QB Ryan Tannehill leaves AR-15 rifle in rental car – Broward – MiamiHerald.com.

So Mrs. Tannehill does a bonehead thing to which I can’t complain much or a friend of mine would painfully remind me of a similar event in my past.  But the reaction of the New Yorker is….expected.

This is the behavior you get when raised in what Paul Markel calls “Slave States.” New Yorkers have this reputation for being tough, but my experience has shown me otherwise.

That an adult may develop such a physical reaction to an inanimate object would be hilarious if it wasn’t so pitiful

No wonder Bloomberg was a mayor of NYC for so long.  Every time he went BOO, at least three boroughs pooped in their collective pants and the rest managed to get to a toilet.

and in other news: Mrs. Tannenhil

A so-called panic button, which is designed to alert a school’s main office to a classroom emergency, reportedly didn’t work after a Key Largo School teacher pushed his repeatedly while a third-grader threatened to shoot and stab his classmates last week.

The threat was apparently just that, and the boy did not have a weapon. But the school’s reaction to the situation sparked outrage among concerned parents who say they were never informed about the incident until after a child told his parents and that couple posted it on Facebook several days later.

via Classroom panic button didn’t work during threat at Key Largo School – Florida Keys – MiamiHerald.com.

One more time: In case of death or grave bodily harm, it is PULL THE TRIGGER, not PUSH THE ALARM BUTTON.

As the Opposition loves to say: “How many more children’s bodies have to fall for the common sense to be exercised?”

Some tasty morsels for your enjoyment:

This is what they call the Cohen Memo. It was written by David Cohen, Senior advisor for Civil Ventures, a progressive D.C.Think Tank. The email’s date for this memo is December 23. 2012 and it was sent to Mike Glaze (Head honcho of MAIG) from John Fleinbatt (Chief Advisor to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg for Policy and Strategic Planning):

And this is a screen cap (taken just now) from our friends of Moms Demand Action’s About page:

You draw your own conclusions.

And they have troubles trying to get the message across.. no wonder when they do not know the subject matter:

Remember when MAIG and WalMart came to an agreement some years ago about selling guns at the stores and keeping a registration of who bought what as a bilateral effort? And how WalMart was praised by Mayor Bloomberg for their part in reducing Gun Violence?  Well, WalMart was giving the scorpion a ride across the river.
This is why we cannot deal with this people: they come to the table without any good faith and they will screw you on a millisecond’s notice.

OK,  Ladies and gents. I am done for now scanning all these emails. But more to come.

So, what have we learned from this past posts? To me at least it confirmed that MAIG HQ is composed by a bunch of heartless political animals. That MAIG and the NYC Mayor’s Office were in cahoots and I believe that MAIG was in charge of some offices and officers of the NYC government as if they were employed by MAIG.

They do not have a real grassroots operation: they are top-heavy and need to be in control of all aspects of the message. They have great strategists for messages aimed at  cities like NY or DC but they are myopic about the rest of the country.  The access/control over the established media is amazing and troubling as it seems that journalist are not just complicit but subservient to them….but we have seen this applied in Washington this last 5 years.

They are victims of their own propaganda against the NRA and Gun Owners. They keep underestimating us and our reach to their own peril, something I do not mind at all.  Napoleon is attributed to say that when an enemy is making a mistake, do not correct them. and this would be a case. Then again, if they figure out our “strategy”, they are also screwed as we are dealing from a position of truth, something that is toxic to them.

Just because they are fools, does not mean they are not dangerous. They have not only the media but a powerful set of financial weapons that I wish we had. On an even monetary playing field, we would erase their asses in about 2 years tops.

I wish we could lay our hands on more emails, specially after the battles in the senate and the collapse of the effort to see their state of mind. I bet they were filled with four-letter words.

MAIG faces a tough 2014. After the Colorado recalls, Bloomberg’s name has become toxic to local elections. and that has to chaff him to no avail. I have no doubts that he had/has presidential aspirations but sticking his nose in state elections while still a Mayor of NYC created this carpetbagger effect that is not well received by those south and west of the Hudson River.

Our enemies are not invincible, but they are tough. They can and will be beaten.

Grits Gresham’s son, Tom Gresham, host of Gun Talk Radio and a previous recipient, presented Zumbo with the award during the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade ShowSM (SHOT Show®) State of the Industry dinner.

Gresham praised Zumbo’s superlative 40-year communications career and his intellectual honesty in handling a personal and industry firestorm.

“I know the selection of Jim Zumbo might surprise some because of a controversy he set off while working for Outdoor Life,” Gresham said. “But I’m pleased, the award committee, made up of the past recipients and POMA and NSSF representatives, looked at Jim’s entire body of work, as well as his part in awakening hunters to the need to support gun rights and all gun owners, when they voted for Jim in early autumn of 2013.
“After a lifetime of writing magazine articles and books, hosting Jim Zumbo Outdoors, and lecturing about hunting and hunting guns, Jim almost had his great body of work erased by a single mistake, which, in fact, may have done more to educate hunters than everything else he has done.

“After questioning the use of AR-style guns in the realm of hunting in an Outdoor Life blog entry, Jim heard the cries of gun owners. He immediately educated himself about modern sporting rifles and became a proponent of them. That speaks well of his intellectual honesty.”

via Zumbo Recipient of Grits Gresham Shooting Sports Communicator Award : The Outdoor Wire.

Tom emailed me the news and his commentary: “went to a guy with 50 years in the industry ….and started taking vets hunting..on his own dime..long before HAVA or Wounded Warrior.”

I am still a bit put off for what Zumbo did, but he did atone and did not go on being stupid. So, if the NSSF (and more important, Tom Gresham) thinks he deserves it, I can live with it.

In other news, Dick Metcalf continues to step on his first name.