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More Shady ATF Activity!

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Weerd Beard

Several members of Congress are calling for an investigation into an embarrassing series of blunders made by the Milwaukee arm of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives after a newspaper reported this week that the agency conducted a months-long undercover operation that cost taxpayers thousands of dollars and netted very few results….The newspaper claims that the agency conducted a deeply flawed sting operation that resulted in a still-missing machine gun being taken from an agent’s car, thousands of taxpayer dollars being lost in merchandise and angry residents saying that ATF officials reintroduced crime into their neighborhood. The operation comes on the heels of the botched Operation Fast and Furious anti-gun trafficking program.

This is the same agency that will be enforcing “Universal Background Checks” and the registration of so-called “Assault Weapons”. And politicians claim WE’RE the problem!!!!

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Gun Free Zones Kill

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Weerd Beard

We need to do something about Gun Free Zones in America!

A manhunt was underway for two suspects after an assistant district attorney was gunned down Thursday outside a courthouse in North Texas.

Mark Hasse, 57, was walking from a parking lot toward the Kaufman County Courthouse annex when he was shot multiple times just before 9 a.m., Kaufman County sheriff’s department spokeswoman Pat Laney said.

Laney said late Thursday that no arrests had been made in the case….McLellan said the prosecutor had worked in a variety of areas including organized crime, knew the dangers of his job and readily accepted them. He was in Kaufman County three years.

Security officers and deputies closed nearby streets in Kaufman, a North Texas town of about 6,700 residents less than 40 miles from Dallas. Kaufman schools were put on lockdown.

Hasse’s death raises the larger issue of security for prosecutors who are responsible sending criminals to prison, Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins said.

Watkins says he’s most concerned that people who are out on bail and awaiting trial will target him as the face of the office or his prosecutors.

“These are people who are on the front line,” said Watkins, who leads an office of 250 prosecutors. “Why isn’t there security? We have a lot of individuals who have ill will toward our profession. Maybe this unfortunate circumstance will provide a wakeup call for those individuals who do hold the purse strings to make sure we’re protected.”

Texas is a state that’s very Liberal on guns, but court houses are gun free zones, and while most have security stations where people can disarm, and re-arm, I wouldn’t be surprised if most court workers simply leave their gun at home, or locked in their car to avoid the hassle of dealing with security.

And honestly for what? Why is a lawful gun owner any more dangerous on the steps of the courthouse as in the court? Still lawful citizens walking out of the courthouse obviously are in VERY REAL danger.

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A Great Article on Chicago

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Weerd Beard

A good read:

CHICAGO – Not a single gun shop can be found in this city because they are outlawed. Handguns were banned in Chicago for decades, too, until 2010, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that was going too far, leading city leaders to settle for restrictions some describe as the closest they could get legally to a ban without a ban. Despite a continuing legal fight, Illinois remains the only state in the nation with no provision to let private citizens carry guns in public.

And yet Chicago, a city with no civilian gun ranges and bans on both assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, finds itself laboring to stem a flood of gun violence that contributed to more than 500 homicides last year and at least 40 killings already in 2013, including a fatal shooting of a 15-year-old girl on Tuesday.

To gun rights advocates, the city provides stark evidence that even some of the toughest restrictions fail to make places safer. “The gun laws in Chicago only restrict the law-abiding citizens and they’ve essentially made the citizens prey,” said Richard A. Pearson, executive director of the Illinois State Rifle Association. To gun control proponents, the struggles here underscore the opposite – a need for strict, uniform national gun laws to eliminate the current patchwork of state and local rules that allow guns to flow into this city from outside.

“Chicago is like a house with two parents that may try to have good rules and do what they can, but it’s like you’ve got this single house sitting on a whole block where there’s anarchy,” said the Rev. Ira J. Acree, one among a group of pastors here who have marched and gathered signatures for an end to so much shooting. “Chicago is an argument for laws that are statewide or, better yet, national.”

First up, remember this is one reason to be fearful of national gun control. No gun shops in all of Chicago, no gun ranges. How do you think this would play for mandatory safety classes and banns on private gun sales? You might have to drive out to the hinterlands just to comply with laws to protect yourself….from the place where guns are banned, and violence is rampant.

Still I love how they praise Chicago’s tough rules, when the standard bleeding-heart revolving door on criminals is in full-effect. A better Analogy for Chicago is like having a house with strict rules, but Mom and Dad both work two jobs and are never home!

Frankly most of the laws Chicago passes are completely redundant to federal laws, but since those laws aren’t being enforced, they SEEM ineffective, so more laws are demanded…that aren’t enforced.

Institutions like gun ranges and gun shops aren’t a problem. Institutions like gangs and the illegal drug trade are a very real and large problem.

We don’t have a gun problem in America, we have a criminal problem.

H/T Mrs. Weer’d

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Another Huge Sink for the War on Drugs

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Weerd Beard

Massive HQ for the drug war in Chicago:

A first-of-its-kind headquarters has opened in Chicago for 70 federal agents, police and prosecutors to work side-by-side, year-round to fight drug traffickers — a set-up meant to end inter-agency rivalry and miscommunication that can hamper investigations.

The recent, fanfare-free opening of the Chicago Strike Force building comes as Mexican cartels now supply over 90 percent of the narcotics in Chicago, and as street gangs vying for turf to sell those drugs kill each other and bystanders caught in the crossfire….A major focus of their investigations will be the point of contact between major traffickers and local gangs, who serve as street-level salesmen. That’s when traffickers are especially vulnerable, Reilly says, because they meet at unfamiliar places or use phones that can be wiretapped.

The ultimate goal is to arrest suspects, squeeze them to cooperate and then move along the cartel’s chain of command to indict everyone from the street dealer to the kingpins in Mexico. They hope to replicate investigations like one that led to the 2009 indictment of key leaders of the Sinaloa cartel and the extradition of Sinaloa lieutenant Vicente Zambada, who’ll stand trial in Chicago this year.

What do you think, you think this ultra-expensive new building and framework (no mention in the article about price of all of this) will stop the illegal drug trade in America, and keep the Cartel soldiers out of this country?

How much longer will we continue to fight this losing war?

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Another Pending Political Disaster

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Weerd Beard

Politicians making rulings on things they know nothing about.

Days after a federal appeals court said the Obama administration is setting overly optimistic production quotas for the struggling biofuels industry, the government issued new standards Thursday that raise production estimates for 2013.

New standards announced by the Environmental Protection Agency require production of 14 million gallons of so-called cellulosic biofuels made from grasses and woody material. That’s up from an 8.7 million-gallon requirement in 2012 — when actual production was near zero.

An oil industry representative said the Obama administration was thumbing its nose at a ruling last week by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The court threw out the 2012 mandate for cellulosic biofuels, saying it was based on wishful thinking rather than accurate estimates for an industry the Obama administration wants to encourage. Administration officials have said that increased use of biofuels could lower greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming, as well as lower U.S. dependence on foreign fuel.

I’m 100% for biofuels, as I think its one of the few renewable formulations that actually seem to work as well as Diesel Fuel. Not sure what they have as a gasoline substitute, still I don’t know if we will EVER have the infrastructure to make a full replacement for traditional oil-based fuels.

Still politicians are going to make rules by pulling numbers out of thin air, and demand we meet their hopes and dreams. This is fine if its a little girl asking for a pony for Christmas, despite living in a 2nd floor walk-up apartment, but these rules come with penalties, enforced with men with guns.

Scary really!

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The Real Reason Why Obama is Pushing Gun Control

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Weerd Beard

So we’re not talking about Obamacare!

A global medical technology company has laid off nearly 100 employees at its offices in Tennessee and Massachusetts and is blaming the layoffs on the medical device tax tied to ObamaCare.

London-based Smith & Nephew said Thursday it laid off fewer than 100 employees between the two offices, which operate as the company’s advanced surgical devices unit, according to The Commercial Appeal

Now I’m not saying that this gun control push is all smoke an mirrors, but don’t you think its a bit strange that all this confiscation talk has been so in the open recently? Generally antis are ALWAYS about confiscation, but they deny it with rigorous assertion when bills are on the line.

I think with all the foreign policy and wars going on, the fiscal cliff, and suddenly all the oddities from Obamacare where NOBODY has read the entire bill, I think the administration would rather us talk about other things.

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“Gun Death” Multiple Means

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Weerd Beard

Not a “Gun Death”.

A central Pennsylvania man is charged with suffocating his 17-year-old girlfriend after injuring her by intentionally driving into a guardrail at about 100 miles per hour in the middle of the night….Police allege Klinger purposely crashed, then killed Heller by sitting on top of her head until she asphyxiated.

I guess we could ban cars capable of doing over 70….not that a collision at 65 to a fixed object is much of a picnic…It might be tough to ban buttocks…well yeah.

Hey but no “Gun Death” so don’t worry about it!

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Barry O and his Over-Under

Posted on February 2, 2013 by Weerd Beard

Deadly weapon of war in the hands of the President.

Just ask Biden!

BTW what is Barry shooting at? Maybe he’s snagging a bird late out of the low-house, but generally when I’m busting clays my barrel is a little more inclined.

I must say, he does have a good cheek weld on that gun!

**UPDATE** I only skimmed the article, but I just read this passage:

“The president is holding the shotgun as one would hold and aim a rifle,” said John H. Josselyn, legislative vice president for the Associated Gun Clubs of Baltimore Inc. “If the President were actually shooting on a skeet or trap range, he would have been wearing a belt with a shell bag or a shooting vest. This is a poorly staged publicity photo intended to deceive the public by portraying the president as something he is not.

Good point! My first time shooting sporting clays I was stuffing shells in my pockets to reload between stations. I was quickly stopped and given somebody’s shell holder so I could carry around my cartridge box on the shooting stations.

He’s certainly not kitted out for a round of skeet, especially if there’s a skeet range or a trap field in camp David, they’d have all the kit you’d need for a fun round of shooting. This could simply be a presser like Kerry’s alleged “Goose Hunt” to somehow align the president with hunters. Very well the gun was loaded for the President, after he was shown how to shoulder it, and the shot was taken to get the precise moment the muzzle was flashing like it did.

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