Gunwalker Update: Waiting For Godot, Working Around Boehner

Via Sipsey Street, from CBS News: (CBS News) Rep. Darrell Issa, the chair of the House oversight committee, is accusing the Department of Justice (DOJ) of failing to fully cooperate in the ongoing investigation of the for the so-called “Fast and Furious” gunwalking operation by likening the situation to the Samuel Beckett play “Waiting for [...]

California and the Gun Ban Mentality

To preface this, California currently bans “assault weapons” based on cosmetic reasons.  They ban rifles based on whether they have a pistol grip, a detachable magazine, a collapsing stock, or a “shoulder thing that goes up“. This guy explains what a “bullet button” is and how it works, and why it’s necessary in California.  Basically, [...]

Gunwalker Update: When You’ve Lost Communist Van Jones…

Via the Daily Caller: During a radio interview Wednesday night, former Obama “green jobs czar” Van Jones broke ranks with current and former administration officials and ripped Attorney General Eric Holder for his handling of Operation Fast and Furious, the failed gun-walking operation that trafficked thousands of firearms across the Mexican border. “I believe that if [...]

German Cops Fired 85 Rounds in 2011, Killed 6, Still Ahead

From MSNBC: German police officers fired a total of 85 bullets in 2011, 49 of which were warning shots, the German publication Der Spiegel reported. Officers fired 36 times at people, killing six and injuring 15. This is a slight decline from 2010, when seven people were killed and 17 injured. Ninety-six shots were fired [...]

The Racist and Statist Roots of Gun Control

Blogger Ringo, who we’ve linked to here before, has a really neat series of photos from the Occupy LA May Day protest/parade.  Some were rather telling, as the communists supporting Shining Path terrorists and such were in full display, as well as people like this: Which leads to the question “what round for occupy zombie?” [...]

Gunwalker Update: Justice Department Contempt Draft, ATF Planning More Gun Control

Both from David Codrea, one of the original reporters on the story of Operation Gunwalker/Fast and Furious. Issa Sends Contempt Draft To Supportive Democrats: House Oversight Committee on Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., sent a letter today to Jason Altmire, D-Pa., and 31 House Democrats who wrote to President Obama in June, 2011 “to [...]

Democrats Trying to Stop Self-Defense

Evan Sayet’s famous “How Modern Liberals Think” speech postulates that the modern liberal, the Democrat, the leftist, is not just wrong most of the time, but is in fact invariably siding with evil, failed, and wrong.  They’re proving it here. Via Drudge, from the Washington Times: House to Vote on Trayvon Amendment House Democrats said [...]

Gunwalker Update: Congress Drafting Contempt Citation… About Time, Ya’ Think?

HotAir has it here. About damn time.  Now when are they going to serve it? The CBS clip omits one important fact, and instead fills it in with a lie.  Sharyl Attkisson, while important, didn’t break the story of Fast and Furious.  That was left to David Codrea and Mike Vanderboegh. Mike V. at Sipsey [...]

Gun Control and Words

Over at Huffpo, this lefty starts the usual lefty spiel that “it’s time to change names, people are on to us!”: Gun “Control” is an anachronism. Look at the exact wording of the Pew question: “What do you think is more important — to protect the right of Americans to own guns, or to control [...]

Gunwalker Update: Katie Pavlich – “Fast And Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up”

Townhall journalist Katie Pavlich just recently released a book – “Fast And Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up“.  I haven’t gotten a copy yet, but a lot of the material it covers will no doubt be familiar to long-time readers here, but it should concisely wrap up a lot of elements of [...]