Slide Fire Stocks Under Fire

The Houston Chronicle already used “in the cross-hairs”:

WASHINGTON – For gun enthusiasts, the Slide Stock is an exciting add-on that enables shooters to unleash bursts of machine-gun-like fire from semi-automatic weapons like the AR-15.

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But for gun control advocates, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., bumpfire devices (as they’re known generically) are a nightmare waiting to happen.

“With practice, a shooter can control his rate of fire from 400 to 800 rounds per minute,” Feinstein said on Wednesday, speaking at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on guns. With such devices, she said, mass shooters gain “tremendous killing power” that can “tear young bodies apart.”

For the children, of course.  But just imagine if a crazed murderer could fire 9 rounds instantaneously.

Andrew Wilkow today on SiriusXM made a solid point that access to the internet and a hardware store is actually a lot more dangerous than any firearm.

This is a much more dangerous guided munitions delivery system, used by terrorists foreign and domestic:

The Houston Chronicle notes that bump fire itself isn’t all it’s cracked up to be:

Gun enthusiasts offer rave reviews but warn bumpfire can be an expensive habit.

“Fun? Yes indeed, the Slide Fire Stock is uber fun,” said David Fortier, writing in Shotgun News last September. “It will put a smile on your face just as quick as it empties your wallet as you burn through copious amounts of ammunition.”

There’s a saying in the citizen gun community: “Full auto is a good way to turn money into noise.”

The Slide Fire stock takes advantage of bump firing, which, for those that skipped the original article, is basically letting recoil bounce the trigger into your finger over and over, simulating full-auto fire.  It isn’t full auto fire, it’s still one pull of the trigger fring one bullet, just rapidly.  It’s difficult to control (which the Slide Fire stock controls to some degree) and it’s basically wasting rounds.  It’s a gimmick, but it could be hypothetically used by someone in a shooting competition, but the specific skill you need to develop with bump firing, even with the Slide Fire, would still be difficult.  It’s not like a full-auto gun with a selector switch.  Even people who shoot a lot have difficulty controlling it.

The Houston Chronicle makes this interesting note:

David Koresh, the Branch Davidian cult leader in Waco, told law enforcement authorities that he used Hellfire triggers on semi-automatic weapons, according to “No More Wacos,” a 1995 book by gun-rights advocate David Kopel. Koresh and his followers killed four ATF agents during a 1993 raid before setting their compound ablaze during an FBI assault. At least 74 people, including 25 children, died.

Might be worth questioning the function and history of the ATF again and the behavior of those who want to “save the children”.  Watching the first few minutes of the Academy Award nominated documentary will get you to the audio of ATF Agent Jim Canavaugh – who’s retired but still doing favors for the ATF and lying about Gunwalker operations.

Moving right along:

Although the technology has been around 40 years or more, bumpfire devices gained popularity in the wake of the Firearms Owners Protection Act, which among other things outlawed civilian possession or transfer of machine guns not legally in circulation prior to the law’s signing date, May 19, 1986.

FOPA was passed to correct some earlier gun control laws that were harsh and uncontrollable.  It was made so that if you lived in Vermont and wanted to drive to West Virginia, you could safely travel through New York without being arrested.  If you are on a peaceable journey and traveling, you have a defense to prosecution (and really shouldn’t be arrested at all) for crossing through jurisdictions that make your rights into crimes.

The Hughes Amendment was part of FOPA, and banned machineguns except for those before 1986.  That’s why real machineguns cost an arm and a leg.  There are only so many of them legally in existence, and so those are the only ones that can be bought or sold.  It’s an artificial market created by government.  It’s fascinating from a supply & demand standpoint, as cheap mass-produced submachineguns that would’ve gone for a few hundred dollars (and the $200 ATF tax stamp and a pile of paperwork and background checks) will now fetch thousands of dollars (like this cheap Sten).

The Slide Fire takes advantage of semi-automatic actions that should be the most resistant to out-of-battery detonations (I’m personally not a fan of bump fire at all because of out-of-battery risks, even if they should be impossible with ARs).

But realistically, it doesn’t matter either way.  It’s just another tool.  Like Robert Heinlein said: “There are no dangerous weapons, only dangerous men.“

Consider the V-Tac 1-5 drill.  It’s a skill test drill in which a shooter will fire 1 round on the first target, 2 on the second, 3 on the third, then 4 on the second target again, then 5 rounds ending on the first target.  I can do it in a little over 4 seconds.  Travis Haley does it in 2.4.

That’s all done with semi-auto.  We’ve already seen shotguns are more dangerous than rifles when comparing people with moderate skills.  At high skill levels, it really doesn’t make a difference.  It’s not the tool, it’s the man (or woman) using the tool.

Going after Slide Fire stocks is just as meaningless as going after semi-auto firearms with scary features or non-scary features, or going after certain sizes of buckshot, or going after rifles or pistols or anything else.

A good person with a gun – no matter what type of gun or what features – will harm no one and will protect people, even if only through deterrence.  A good person disarmed will become a victim of harm and can protect no one.  A bad person will never be disarmed, will always find a weapon, and will always harm people.

Gunwalker Update: Dealings On Holder Contempt Charges

From HotAir:

The Obama administration’s intransigence on recess appointments gave the judiciary an opportunity to finally rule on the practice — and the White House lost a huge legal battle that would effectively handcuff Barack Obama to the Senate for the next four years on appointments. I’m not too surprised to see that they may not want to take chances again, this time on the reach of Congressional contempt charges:

A deal may be near in the Operation-Fast-and-Furious-related dispute that led the House of Representatives to cite Attorney General Eric Holder for contempt last year.

U.S. District Court Judge Amy Jackson was set to hold a key hearing next week in the lawsuit the House filed seeking to enforce its subpoena for records of how the Justice Department responded to Congressional inquiries about the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives gunrunning investigation that may have resulted in as many as 2000 weapons flowing to Mexican drug cartels.

However, both the Justice Department and the House asked Jackson Tuesday to put the scheduled hearing off for more than two months as the two sides try to work out a deal that could obviate the need for the lawsuit.

This isn’t a case that should involve any compromise.  Obama and Holder’s ATF is directly responsible for arming narcoterrorist cartels.  This has been proven.  The deaths of hundreds (if not thousands by now) of our Mexican neighbors and at least two US law enforcement agents are because of Holder’s DOJ/ATF actions, and at the very least have been covered up by Obama’s executive privilege claims.

There should be no deal other than release of all documents so that Oversight & Reform can continue their investigation.  This is a mass murder case, not a procedural squabble.

Gunwalker Update: ATF Fearlessly Distributing Guns To Criminals

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

A store calling itself Fearless Distributing opened early last year on an out-of-the-way street in Milwaukee’s Riverwest neighborhood, offering designer clothes, athletic shoes, jewelry and drug paraphernalia.

Those working behind the counter, however, weren’t interested in selling anything.

They were undercover agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives running a storefront sting aimed at busting criminal operations in the city by purchasing drugs and guns from felons.

But the effort to date has not snared any major dealers or taken down a gang. Instead, it resulted in a string of mistakes and failures, including an ATF military-style machine gun landing on the streets of Milwaukee and the agency having $35,000 in merchandise stolen from its store, a Journal Sentinel investigation has found.

The ATF set up a fake distributing company to sell guns and do a “sting”.  Yet somehow, all they managed to do was FUBAR everything.  This should come as no surprise.

When the 10-month operation was shut down after the burglary, agents and Milwaukee police officers who participated in the sting cleared out the store but left behind a sensitive document that listed names, vehicles and phone numbers of undercover agents.

And the agency remains locked in a battle with the building’s owner, who says he is owed about $15,000 because of utility bills, holes in the walls, broken doors and damage from an overflowing toilet.

The sting resulted in charges being filed against about 30 people, most for low-level drug sales and gun possession counts. But agents had the wrong person in at least three cases. In one, they charged a man who was in prison – as a result of an earlier ATF case – at the time agents said he was selling drugs to them.

And it gets even worse:

Residents of the area, tucked between N. Humboldt Blvd. and the Milwaukee River, are angry the ATF secretly drew drug dealers and gun-toting felons to their neighborhood, which is rallying to improve.

The ATF was out there again creating crimes and ruining neighborhoods.

In Milwaukee, agents located Fearless Distributing in a neighborhood where aggravated assaults had been declining since at least 2008, according to an analysis by the Journal Sentinel relying on Milwaukee Police Department numbers.

Aggravated assaults within a mile radius of the storefront dropped to 109 last year from 193 in 2008. Homicides in the area ranged from zero to three per year during the last five years, far fewer than other crime-laden areas in the city.

And then it gets worse from there:

In September, an agent parked his Ford Explorer at the Alterra on N. Humboldt Blvd., about a half mile away, with three ATF guns stored in a metal box in the back.

About 3 p.m. Sept. 13, an Alterra employee spotted three men breaking into the Explorer. They stole three guns: a Smith & Wesson 9mm handgun, a Sig Sauer .40-caliber pistol and an M-4 .223-caliber fully automatic rifle. They also made off with ammunition and an ATF radio, according to a police report.

Yup, the ATF put an actual assault rifle – as in select fire, fully automatic M4 – on the streets, in a neighborhood that was improving until they got there.

One of the suspects hid the machine gun under a bed and took the handguns with him. He was questioned by police and refused to talk. He was released. No one has been charged in the burglary of the ATF guns, according to Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Karen Loebel. She declined to say if charges would be coming.

The ATF soon had one of its stolen guns back, however.

The very next day, according to court documents, 19-year-old Marquise Jones contacted agents at Fearless Distributing and sold the Sig Sauer – and another unrelated handgun – back to agents.

The price: $1,400.

But Jones would not be arrested for two months. And when he was, it was not for the theft. His name does not appear on the police reports related to the vehicle break-in. He was charged with having a stolen gun.

Meanwhile, the hunt for the machine gun and the other stolen handgun continues.

Yup, the ATF’s full-auto M4 is still out there, and they’re paying double price to get their own guns back.  Clearly, though, we need to crack down on US citizens rights.  Only the cops should have guns… and the criminals they give guns to.

Mike Hashimoto at the Dallas Morning News asks “Is it a good idea to give the ATF even more to do?“  Mike, you seem like a very good guy, but check your premise really quick and ask “Is it a good idea to have an ATF at all?“

The ATF has always been an agency full of jack-booted thugs.  Remember the racist ATF “Good Ol’ Boys Roundup” that ran for decades?

This is the same agency that on their good days ruled shoe strings are machineguns and that Chore Boy pads are NFA firearms.  They also throw parties when they get rules passed that infringe on citizens’ rights.

Why not just Boot the ATF entirely?

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Update: Not really an update, more of a post-script, but I figured I’d be remiss if I didn’t note there are a few good ATF agents.  John Dodson, Vince Celafu, and other whistleblowers are good guys.  I’ve met an ATF agent or two who are good people, though they’re usually on the licensing side of the house rather than the legal decision/enforcement side.  The institution itself is set up to tax and control things that aren’t illegal (and two of which are specifically named in the Constitution’s amendments), and that contributes to a corporate culture that is every bit as prone to tyrannical action as a “free speech bureau” that exists to control, regulate, and deny speech would be.

Gunwalker Update: Obama-Holder Gun Control Hypocrisy… Again

From Forbes:

Now that President Obama has issued an executive order to “maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime”, is Attorney General Eric Holder’s job safe? That action was number 13 of the 23 gun control mandates he signed in the emotional wake of the tragic Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newton, Connecticut.

…was a crime actually committed in this Holder case? Apparently so. The full House voted on a bipartisan basis to hold him in both civil and criminal Contempt of Congress. That criminal resolution was then forwarded to Holder’s subordinate, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ronald Machen, for prosecution. And despite being legally required to bring forth charges against Holder, Machen, obviously under his instruction, chose to ignore the resolution.

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Vice President Joe Biden, who recently headed a gun violence investigation task force, defended Obama’s issuance of  executive orders, stating: “The president is going to act on gun control”, whereby: “There are executive orders, there’s executive action that can be taken. We haven’t decided what that is yet. But we’re compiling it all with the help of the attorney general and the rest of the cabinet members as well as legislative action that we believe is required.” He continued: “As the president said, if your actions result in only saving one life, they’re worth taking.”

He somehow failed to mention, however, that under Holder’s watch, his Department of Justice oversaw a program which allowed thousands of guns to enter the bloodstream of the Mexican drug war…guns linked to the deaths of at least one U.S. border patrol agent and hundreds of their citizens.

Two of the Fast and Furious weapons were found at the Arizona murder scene of Brian Terry. Two other walking guns were recovered at the location of Sinaloa drug cartel members who allegedly kidnapped and killed the brother of Mexico’s attorney general, Mario Gonzales Rodriguez in November 2010. In fact, one of those illicitly-transferrd guns was originally purchased by George Gillett, then a deputy special agent in charge of the ATF’s Phoenix office. That one was later recovered at the scene of a shootout between a Mexican drug cartel and military troops that left Mexican beauty queen Flores Gamez and four others dead.

It remains unclear who is responsible for intentionally passing assault weapons of the same types that the Obama administration is determined to ban law-abiding American’s from purchasing, into the hands of drug cartels. As Representative Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) recently commented from the House floor: “We have a president who makes speeches, and an attorney general that makes speeches, about how they’re going after illegal guns…and yet there is blood on the hands of people in this administration, and we can’t even find out who they are.”

The story misspells the name of whistleblower John Dodson.

Every time Obama says gun control, the response should be swift and immediate… you could say… FAST AND FURIOUS.

They worked to undermine the Second Amendment by creating a crisis.  They murdered hundreds (if not thousands) of our Mexican neighbors and two federal agents – Brian Terry and Jaime Zapata (though Zapata was killed by a parallel gunwalking program run by Texas’ ATF).

Obama’s ATF Nominee on the Design Team for Fast & Furious

Via Breitbart:

As part of President Barack Obama’s 23-point gun control plan, he nominated Minnesota U.S. Attorney B. Todd Jones–who currently doubles right now as the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives–to be the ATF director.

Jones was personally a part of the high-ranking Department of Justice unit that first met on October 26, 2009, to create the new DOJ policy that was used to justify “gunwalking” in Operation Fast and Furious. In Fast and Furious, the ATF “walked” roughly 2,000 firearms into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels. That means through straw purchasers the agency allowed sales to happen and didn’t stop the guns from being trafficked, even though they had the legal authority to do so and were fully capable of doing so.

Todd Jones was part of the scheming anti-gun, anti-rights murderous conspirators who drew this thing up.  And now, they want to make him the head of the ATF.

Obama nominated Jones after he said in his gun control plan that the “ATF has not had a confirmed director for six years. There is no excuse for leaving the key agency enforcing gun laws in America without a leader. It is time for Congress to confirm an ATF director.”

The left is insidious, and never relents.  They murder US federal agents and hundreds of Mexicans with their schemes to undermine the US Constitution, and when they’re found out, they double down.  We already saw Feinstein two years ago calling for more gun control because of the ATF’s murders.  These Ruling Class tyrants get caught in the middle of crimes and blame the citizen for their actions.

It’d be like a beaten wife walking in on her cheating abusive husband, and the husband blaming her for cheating, and beating her more for it.

Obama’s Media Sycophants

Not that this hasn’t been noted a lot before, but this particular example is almost parody:

One of those off-the-record moments was an event where President Obama joined reporters for drinks while the campaign was in Orlando, Fla., an event that Hastings partially details in the book.

“The behavior of the assembled press corps was telling. Everyone, myself included, swooned. Swooned! Head over heels. One or two might have even lost their minds,” Hastings writes, as each reporter had a chance to speak personally with the president. “We were all, on some level, deeply obsessed with Obama, crushing hard, still a little love there. This was nerd heaven, a politico’s paradise, the subject himself moving among us — shaking our hands, slapping our shoulders!”

Hastings reveals that the president spent “over an hour” with reporters who later stayed up late buzz over every detail of the evening.

“Did this inform our reporting, did seeing the man in the flesh, in a somewhat staged and casual setting, provide new, deep, and lasting insights?” asks a reflective Hastings in his book. “Yes, I would say, but again, I’m not at liberty to share.”

They worship him.

And he demands they shut up or he destroys them:

Naturally, Hastings was chastised by many of his campaign colleagues for revealing some of the precious details of the event.

“The fear was that the White House would collectively punish all of us by revoking the already limited access or, worse, Obama might never come down and hang out with us again,” Hastings writes.

Campaign spokesperson Jen Psaki, Hastings notes, was furious and angrily phoned his editor Ben Smith for publishing details of the event. In response, the Obama campaign banished him from the campaign plane for a week.

If you aren’t part of the obsequious, drooling, swooning sycophant worshippers, you’re banished.  Also, it’s worth nothing this piece by Politico:

Obama has had his share of problems, amply noted, probed and press-released by Hill Republicans — including Solyndra, the terror attack in Benghazi, Libya, and the bungled Fast and Furious program, which funneled weapons to drug dealers in an effort to trace a trail to kingpins. But they have been relatively easy to swat away so far.

Why do you suppose the murder of two US federal agents, the murders of hundreds (if not thousands by now) of our Mexican neighbors, have been “relatively easy to swat away”?  The press worships him.  They swoon in his presence, going weak in the knees for their progressive godling.

They won’t report on murders of American citizens.  They won’t report on Fast and Furious.  They won’t question why Obama exerted executive privilege to hush up hundreds of murders ordered by him.  They won’t question Benghazi, where our ambassador was murdered and dragged through the street.  They won’t question why a consulate was left defenseless.  They won’t question Paula Broadwell’s comments about secret CIA prisons (but they sure will hammer Petraeus).

Most of the media is a willing collaborator in this.  They are Obama’s zealots.  No wonder public opinion of the media has been so low.

Gunwalker Update: Eric Holder Begs Court To Not Release Fast and Furious Documents

In all this “new national debate on gun violence”, which is really just a big propaganda event against citizens rights, some things have gone almost totally forgotten.  Namely, how the Obama administration sent guns to Mexico with the intent of finding them at crime scenes in order to “prove” that US guns were going south.  Operation Fast and Furious ended up with hundreds (if not thousands) of dead Mexicans and two US federal agents dead (that we know of so far) – all because Obama and his DOJ wanted to push for more gun control.  After their scheme was found out, anti-gun forces still wanted to use their own murderous scheme by government to destroy US citizens’ rights.  It’s like a wife-beater getting caught and then beating his wife twice as hard because she “made him do it”.

Remember – they were mandated by the ATF to let guns go to Mexico, the Mexican authorities and the ATF in Mexico knew nothing.  This was the US government supplying guns to the cartels to “find” them at murder scenes:

Eric Holder’s DOJ has been stonewalling since this began to be exposed when US Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed and Operation Fast and Furious and the ATF’s many Gunwalker plans have come to light (including Operation Castaway, and an unnamed operation in Texas that provided the gun that killed Jaime Zapata).  They’re still trying to stop any of this from coming to light, with Holder begging for courts to stop any further exposure of his crimes:

Attorney General Eric Holder and his Department of Justice have asked a federal court to indefinitely delay a lawsuit brought by watchdog group Judicial Watch. The lawsuit seeks the enforcement of open records requests relating to Operation Fast and Furious, as required by law.

Judicial Watch had filed, on June 22, 2012, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking all documents relating to Operation Fast and Furious and “specifically [a]ll records subject to the claim of executive privilege invoked by President Barack Obama on or about June 20, 2012.”

The administration has refused to comply with Judicial Watch’s FOIA request, and in mid-September the group filed a lawsuit challenging Holder’s denial. That lawsuit remains ongoing but within the past week President Barack Obama’s administration filed what’s called a “motion to stay” the suit. Such a motion is something that if granted would delay the lawsuit indefinitely.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said that Holder’s and Obama’s desire to continually hide these Fast and Furious documents is “ironic” now that they’re so gung-ho on gun control. “It is beyond ironic that the Obama administration has initiated an anti-gun violence push as it seeking to keep secret key documents about its very own Fast and Furious gun walking scandal,” Fitton said in a statement. “Getting beyond the Obama administration’s smokescreen, this lawsuit is about a very simple principle: the public’s right to know the full truth about an egregious political scandal that led to the death of at least one American and countless others in Mexico. The American people are sick and tired of the Obama administration trying to rewrite FOIA law to protect this president and his appointees. Americans want answers about Fast and Furious killings and lies.”

So each time you hear about Obama calling for more gun bans, remember – his administration intentinally murdered over 10 times the people at Sandy Hook in order have an excuse to try to take away your rights.

And they’re still covering it up.

Dissecting Obama’s Gun Control Speech

From the transcript here, I’m just going to hit the last page or so right now, because some things jumped out at me.

That’s what these reforms are designed to do. They’re commonsense measures. They have the support of the majority of the American people.

No, they aren’t.  No, they aren’t.  No, they don’t.

 More of our fellow Americans might still be alive, celebrating birthdays and anniversaries and graduations.

Brian Terry and Jaime Zapata would still be alive if Obama’s Justice Department under Eric Holder and his ATF hadn’t been sending guns and ammunition to the Mexican narcoterrorist cartels with the intention of murdering Mexican citizens so they could discover them at crime scenes and say “see, look how bad the Second Amendment is!”  His active, murderous conspiracy killed 10 to 100 times the number of people in Mexico as were killed in Connecticut.  For once, I can see how someone would say America is a racist nation – based on the media coverage (there was none) by most networks about Fast and Furious, you’d think American doesn’t give a rat’s ass about dead Mexican kids.  Of course, it doesn’t really matter what color the kids they murder are, what matters is that Americans are disarmed.  The FBI and ATF conspired to let felons pass the NICS background checks so they could send guns south to cartel hitmen.  They used taxpayer money to fund cartels that couldn’t buy their own.  Individual ATF agent supervisors lied on 4473 gun background check forms – committing felonies – only to have their guns turn up at murder scenes in Mexico.

This administration has less than zero credibility.

This will be difficult. There will be pundits and politicians and special interest lobbyists publicly warning of a tyrannical all- out assault on liberty, not because that’s true, but because they want to gin up fear or higher ratings or revenue for themselves. And behind the scenes, they’ll do everything they can to block any commonsense reform and make sure nothing changes whatsoever.

This is the interesting part, and where myself and two other coworkers heard a Freudian slip.  The pause there where he said “that’s true” struck us, as though he had suddenly told the truth – acknowledging that yes, this is a tyrannical all-out assault on liberty.

This is a tyrannical all-out assault on liberty.

Now, let me be absolutely clear: Like most Americans, I believe the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms. I respect our strong tradition of gun ownership and the rights of hunters and sportsmen. There are millions of responsible, law-abiding gun owners in America who cherish their right to bear arms for hunting or sport or protection or collection.

We already know that when Obama says “let me be clear”, the next words he says will be flat out lies.  Here he says “absolutely clear”, so these are astonishing whoppers.  (I can imagine him telling Michelle “let me be clear, I love the food out of your garden” and her giving him the death-stare.)

The Second Amendment says nothing about hunting, or sport, or collection, or even about self-defense against thugs.  It’s about the security of a free state – it’s about security against government.  Individual self defense is a great benefit (and recognized by the Founders), but ultimately the Founders prefaced the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms by noting that a well-regulated militia (as in free, armed citizens) are necessary to the security of a free state – as opposed to a tyrannical state – and whether against oppression from within or without.

The purpose of the Second Amendment is to argue against the “necessity” pleas of tyrants, and against liars who say “common sense” is having a natural right respected by the Constitution abolished in regulation.

Mexico, Obama’s favorite nation to murder innocent people in, has a 10th Amendment that says the people have the right to bear arms, subject to “reasonable” restrictions.  Which means, according to any government, that there will be no guns for the serfs.

If the same argument were being used against violent video games, what would that sound like?  If there were 23 executive actions taken against the rights of people to play and own violent video games, how would that sound?

This will be difficult. There will be blogs and gamers and special interest lobbyists publicly warning of a tyrannical all- out assault on liberty, not because that’s true, but because they want to gin up fear or higher ratings or revenue for themselves. And behind the scenes, they’ll do everything they can to block any commonsense reform and make sure nothing changes whatsoever.

Now, let me be absolutely clear: Like most Americans, I believe the First Amendment guarantees an individual right to free speech. I respect our strong tradition of gaming and TV entertainment. There are millions of responsible, law-abiding gamers in America who cherish their right to play Frogger or Pac-Man, or even Wii Tennis.

I also believe most gamers agree that we can respect the First Amendment while keeping an irresponsible, law-breaking few from inflicting harm on a massive scale. I believe most of them agree that if America worked harder to keep violent video games out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be fewer atrocities like the one that occurred in Newtown.

First, it’s time for Congress to require a universal background check for anyone trying to buy a video game.

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The law already requires licensed video game dealers to run background checks, and over the last 14 years that’s kept 1.5 million of the wrong people from getting their hands on a violent video game.

But it’s hard to enforce that law, when as many as 40 percent of all video game purchases are conducted without a background check. That’s not safe. That’s not smart. That’s not fair to responsible video game buyers or sellers.

If you want to buy a video game, whether it’s from a licensed dealer, or a private seller, you should at least have to show you aren’t mentally defective, and that you pose no threat to society under our definitions. This is common sense. And an overwhelming majority of Americans agree with us on the need for universal background checks for video games, including more than 70 percent of readers of Game Informer and Wired according to one survey. When we asked them “should people like Ted Bundy be allowed to play violent video games?”, they said no.  So there’s no reason we can’t do this.

Second, Congress should restore a ban on all violent video games, and a 10 minute play-time for all games.

The type of video games that drove the killer to murder in Aurora, for example, when paired with long-duration games has one purpose: to drive a person to as much violence as possible, to do as much damage to their psyche and designed to inflict maximum madness. And that’s what allowed the maniac in Aurora to hurt 70 people, 70 people, killing 12.  The bombs he set at his home because of trap games he played had taught him how to kill many more, and it was only by luck that his bombs didn’t kill hundreds more.  And this is all due to violent video games.

Violent video games designed to glorify violence and war have no place in American homes. A majority of Americans agree with us on this. And, by the way, so did JFK, one of the staunchest defenders of the First Amendment, who wrote to Congress in 1963, urging them — this is JFK speaking — urging them to listen to the American public and to the law enforcement community and support a ban on the further creation of violent films and entertainment that drive people to violence.

We have to ban video games for the good of the children.  We have to do this, because we must do this.  We cannot let anyone else be harmed by the madness inflicted on our society by these death-pornography merchants.  We have already seen the carnage that these madmen cause, whether with guns, bombs, knives, or fire, and we can only use common sense to come up with common sense solutions that will embrace what the public has already demanded.  All violent video games must be banned.  We must urge congress to ban all violent video games for the children.

Soon: 19 Imperial Orders Against Your Rights

From Politico:

The White House has identified 19 executive actions for President Barack Obama to move unilaterally on gun control, Vice President Joe Biden told a group of House Democrats on Monday, the administration’s first definitive statements about its response to last month’s mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Because government of the people, by the people, and for the people always means an imperial president doing what he wants to do to you.

Later this week, Obama will formally announce his proposals to reduce gun violence, which are expected to include renewal of the assault weapons ban, universal background checks and prohibition of high-capacity magazine clips. But Biden, who has been leading Obama’s task force on the response, spent two hours briefing a small group of sympathetic House Democrats on the road ahead in the latest White House outreach to invested groups.

None of that would have prevented the Connecticut murders.  All it does, like it always does, is go after peaceable, good citizens.  It makes more laws and rules and cracks down on innocent men.

The focus on executive orders is the result of the White House and other Democrats acknowledging the political difficulty of enacting any new gun legislation, a topic Biden did not address in Monday’s meeting.

The executive actions could include giving the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention authority to conduct national research on guns, more aggressive enforcement of existing gun laws and pushing for wider sharing of existing gun databases among federal and state agencies, members of Congress in the meeting said.

They’re just going to do what they want, and they’ll do it insidiously, looking for any way to chip away at your rights.  The CDC has no business whatsoever dealing with firearms.  It’d be the same as if they were asked to do “national research on opinion colums, and whether those lead to divisiveness and stress… so we need to ban opinions and free speech for the children“.

This administration has zero authority on which to stand about enforcement of existing gun laws.  They shipped thousands of guns to Mexican narcoterrorists and killed at least hundreds (if not thousands) of our Mexican neighbors and two US law enforcement agents.

Obama touched on his expected legislative guns agenda at his own news conference in the East Room on Monday, while stressing the power he has via executive order.

“How we are gathering data, for example, on guns that fall into the hands of criminals, and how we track that more effectively — there may be some steps that we can take administratively as opposed through legislation,” Obama said.

The Obama administration ATF sent guns to criminals and decided to “track” them by finding them at murder scenes.  This administration actively supported violent criminal enterprises in order to demonize lawful US gun owners so they could crack down.  They tried it by killing our Mexican neighbors, and now they’re dancing in the blood of children to push it again.

Or you can take this reactionary extreme right wing fringe guy’s word for it:

So you have a president and his administration who were smuggling guns to Mexican narcoterrorists so they could be found at murder scenes to blame US gun owners and now they want to tell you the citizen that you shouldn’t have guns and your government is going to take them all away to protect you?  A government that arms narcoterrorist gangs to kill you and your neighbors is somehow going to “protect you” by disarming you and arming the most violent people on the planet?

Defense against corrupt government is the number one reason why the right to keep and bear arms was put into the Constitution.

“[The Founding Fathers'] stated reason was to allow the American people to protect themselves from the United States Congress — that is, government. That’s why we have the Second Amendment,” he said.

“A lot of people are saying we should somehow control or restrict arms,” he continued. “And I would ask the question: Are we under any less a threat of tyranny from Washington than we were in 1787? And I would say no.”

An administration that’s already failed at murderous schemes that killed thousands in order to enact gun control is now threatening imperial executive order action against your rights.  Sounds like it’s well past time to remove the guy – as TX Rep Steve Stockman says:

“I will seek to thwart this action by any means necessary, including but not limited to eliminating funding for implementation, defunding the White House, and even filing articles of impeachment,” Stockman said in a statement.

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“Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible,” he added. “Under no circumstances whatsoever may the government take any action that disarms any peaceable person — much less without due process through an executive declaration without a vote of Congress or a ruling of a court.”

He concluded by claiming that an executive order would be not just “not just an attack on the Constitution,” but also an “attack on Americans.”

“If the president is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist,” he said.

The Battle Against Cooler Heads… And Operation Fast and Furious Revisited

Slate calls this piece “The Battle Against The Clock“, but it’s really about not listening to cooler heads or understanding the issue:

The battle for gun control is a battle against the clock. After a tragedy like the massacre in Newtown, Conn., gun control advocates say lawmakers have about 30 days to channel public outrage toward enacting laws that might prevent another mass killing. After that, people get distracted, new challenges crop up, memories dim, and nothing gets done. Those who would like to stop gun control legislation know how this clock ticks, too. It is a battle between emotion and organization. How long can the emotion be sustained and how long can the NRA organization wait it out?

How long can Democrats dance in the blood of children and push people to give up their rights to resist oppression?

There are two avenues for change emerging out of the discussions held by Vice President Biden. One is a long list of potential legislative changes: laws to ban assault weapons, limit the size of high-capacity magazine clips, promote universal background checks, crack down on gun trafficking, improve mental health screening, and perhaps nudge Hollywood into tamping down some of the violence in video games and movies. That’s the grinding, nose-counting process that will take place in Congress. The second, larger task, as administration officials describe it, is broader and more fuzzy. It requires changing the culture of guns in America and shifting the conversation from one of protecting gun rights enshrined in the Constitution to one of protecting children.

That is a fundamental change of the culture of the United States.  That is destroying the right enshrined in the Constitution and replacing it with “for the children!”

Nothing pulls at heartstrings more than children.  And Democrats know that once people sit back a bit and realize that the dangers of a disarmed citizenry before an oppressive government invariably proves the maxim: “A madman in an armed society can kill dozens, a madman in a disarmed society will kill millions.”

Listening to those involved in this effort there are echoes of the 2008 Obama campaign—they describe an energy and swell of sentiment that just needs a person to shape and guide it. Activists who have been fighting for gun control for years describe a new unexpected passion among progressive groups. After meeting with the vice president and his staffers, they express surprise (and delight) at how seriously the president and his team are pushing this effort.

They want to fundamentally destroy the nation, to “change” it into something unrecognizable, wherein they shape the world to their heart’s desire by manipulating you the citizen.  Our Founders intended for the maximum amount of liberty and the smallest amount of government interference in your life.  These progressive groups progress towards tyranny in which they will dictate how you will live.  They’re not trying to change public opinion for more freedom and liberty, giving you choices of how you want to live, they’re trying to restrict you by telling you you’re stupid and it’s for your own good.  And the clock is ticking, because they can only lie for so long before people catch on to it.

One of the key messages, says a White House official, is to “drain the drama and fear” out of what the president is proposing. The message the president wants to send is that he’s not trying to trample on hunters and sportsmen. That’s a necessary precursor to any legislation because advocates for reform argue that the only way they will be able to build popular and political support is if they can split the NRA from its leadership.

The key message is to lie.

Hunting and sports have nothing to do with the Second Amendment.  Read it.

The “necessary precursor” is to lull the gullible into believing that their long-range sniper rifle isn’t next.

Photo by Oleg Volk.

If the membership can be convinced that the president is not an ideologue trying to grab their guns, they will be less likely to believe the NRA leadership who paint him that way.

If the big lie can be believed, they can get the foot in the door and get more bans passed.

If the president does make a full push to enact gun control laws or change public sentiment, it will be another test of the bully pulpit and its limitations. When President Obama pushed his health care reform it became less popular. His efforts to pressure Republicans during his first term in a variety of budget fights did not work. Neither of those causes had a galvanizing moment behind it though. The president has also shown signs that he’s going to be a little more combative in his second term than he was in the first.

The “bully pulpit” is used by someone who is, in fact, a bully, pushing a lie against citizens’ rights.  Obamacare trampled citizens’ rights and is still being fought against because people know how it will impact them – they’re seeing limits on religious liberty already, wherein individuals who don’t believe in certain treatments are forced at the point of the government’s gun to pay for them.

The budget fights are a matter of Obama paying for his Curley Effect destruction of one income level to favor the income leve that votes for him due to handouts.  A combative president who seeks to crush citizens’ rights used to be something so-called liberals were concerned about, but they aren’t.  They’re all on board with the leftist-progressive utopia that can only be made at the point of the government’s gun.

Vice President Biden reports to the president Tuesday on the findings of his inquiries, and after that, the president will back a set of specific recommendations. He won’t offer legislation. Congress will have to come up with the language themselves. Based on conversations with administration officials and gun control activists, few think that an assault weapons ban is possible, though the president will push for one. A plan for stronger background checks is likely to have more support, as are laws that would crack down on gun trafficking. Whether the president can even build support for that depends on his will—and how long he can keep the time from running out.

Biden doesn’t care what anyone but the gun-banners are saying.  That’s all there is to it.  He’s anti gun, so’s Obama.  It’s a farce.

An “assault weapons ban” is just a ban on modern firearms, putting the citizen at a disadvantage against criminals (who never follow laws) and additional disadvantage against the government (who, as history has shown, do what they like once they aren’t held accountable).

Then there’s this line:

A plan for stronger background checks is likely to have more support, as are laws that would crack down on gun trafficking.

If you’ve been reading this thinking that I sound a bit peeved, I am.  The first part of that is banning private sales – as in you can’t sell a gun to your brother or sister – because the government has to get involved in your life and regulate your rights.

The second part is worse.  Anything this government says about “trafficking” is infuriating beyond measure.

The Obama administration’s ATF sent guns to Mexican narcoterrorist cartels in order that they could then recover the guns at murder scenes.  The objective was to undermine the Second Amendment and work to demonize US gun owners.  This was called Operation Fast and Furious (aka Project or Operation Gunwalker – before the real name was learned).

This is Susana Flores Maria Gamez, a Mexican beauty pageant queen murdered by narcoterrorists armed by Obama’s government.

This is Brian Terry, US Border Patrol agent and Marine veteran, murdered by narcoterrorists armed by Obama’s government.

This is Jaime Zapata, US ICE agent murdered by narcoterrorists armed by Obama’s government.

There are hundreds upon hundreds, possibly up to thousands of Mexicans and US citizens murdered by Obama’s deliberate plan to run guns to Mexican narcoterrorists in order to undermine the Second Amendment.  ATF Phoenix SAC Bill Newell was the go-to guy for years worth of “US guns are going to Mexico” stories that were proven false by Stratfor; and he was the same man who was in contact with the White House through his friend Kevin O’Reilly; the same White House calling for gun bans.

For anyone in this current regime to go off saying that it’s time for laws against “gun trafficking” by destroying US citizens rights is insult to deliberate criminal injury.  They want to take your rights away and they’ve been trying for years – and they’ve been trying the same things over and over.  They tried to frame you and ended up killing hundreds if not thousands of our Mexican neighbors, and at least two federal law enforcement agents.

At about the 13 minute mark, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley gives a pretty decent summary.  When you listen to it, for those who haven’t heard it, you’ll see why this current round of gun control is that much more infuriating.  The Obama administration has murdered people intentionally and is still covering up murders – all to push their gun control agenda against you, the citizen.

“Thomas Jefferson once said that,  quote ‘The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution.’  Now politicians and bureaucrats prefer to talk about anything but the Constitution because you know what that Constitution does? It places inconvenient restrictions on their ability to concentrate more power in government.  They even blame the Second Amendment for their own failure to enforce law.  The gun grabbers in our government exploit any examples of lawlessness and violence as an excuse to infringe upon the rights of law abiding citizens.  That’s why the Second Amendment defenders are often the most outspoken advocates for law and order.”

- Sen. Chuck Grassley