Veteran Campaigns for Office by Attacking Private Gun Sales and the Right to Own Semiautomatic Firearms

That is simply not true. It’s repeating an intentional deception crafted decades ago by the Violence Policy Center to exploit public ignorance and fear.

“Democrat buys semiautomatic rifle at Va. gun show in under 10 minutes,” The Washington Post crows in a “Gotcha!” headline designed to misuse supposedly “straight news” to stir up a demand for political action:

“Dan Helmer, an Army veteran, said he bought a firearm similar to the one he carried in Iraq and Afghanistan to show how easy it is to legally obtain an ‘in­cred­ibly dangerous piece of weaponry that’s meant for war” from a private seller. He bought the gun less than two miles from a public school, he said.”

Emotionally manipulate the ignorant much? The firearm may be cosmetically “similar,” but you can bet he didn’t carry a semiautomatic rifle when deployed. As for being “meant for war,” you’ll note he’s not questioning why police should have them if that’s the case, plus he’s intentionally ignoring what the citizen militia is entitled to:  Per the Miller Court, “the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear … ordinary military equipment … that … could contribute to the common defense.”

Plus he’s repeating one of the oldest lies in the gun-grabber playbook.

It’s beyond curious that the monopoly of violence zealots behind semiautomatic bans “justify” them by screaming they are “weapons of war.” Those, of course, are precisely what the Founders deemed necessary for members of the citizen militia to keep and bear. To insist otherwise is to maintain their purpose was to have the “whole people” called forth to be slaughtered – hardly a prescription for a secure or free State.

And this business of “less than two miles form a public school” is pure hysteria –ginning aimed at spooking the herd.  Helmer might as well tell them he thinks they’re ignorant and stupid, which you’d probably have to be to vote for such an obvious manipulator. And besides, if guns are too dangerous to be allowed in such areas, 90% of the country could be declared off-limits.

Helmer took an oath when he enlisted and he’ll take another if elected. How he squares that with active subversion of the Bill of Rights in order to gain political power is left unsaid. Hey,if these guys can get away with it and be rewarded…

And WaPo, of course, has long been in the business of undermining the right to keep and bear arms by the law-abiding, yet somehow ready to turn a blind eye to real and deadly abuses that don’t advance the narrative.  Case in point: When they gave Obama cover over his transparent lie related to OperationFast and Furious “gunwalking.”

As a DSM outlet continually wringing its hands over “gun violence,” here’s a chance to see if they’ll do it again, via one of the comments they allowed to be posted under their article (it won’t “hot link,” but the comment appears at https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/democrats-race-to-prove-who-hates-guns-more-in-northern-virginia-house-primary/2018/05/01/d3ad87a0-4cbb-11e8-b725-92c89fe3ca4c_story.html?commentId=a84d12d5-839e-4907-ba5e-80ec88add3e6&outputType=comment&utm_term=.718ade7a6fed) :

My money’s on the guy turning out to be an anti-gun liar, which is, face it, what all grabbers are.  That said, if the paper’s editorial board is really serious about “gun control,” the comment poster is using their forum to brag that he committed a felony and is a “gun criminal.”

Seeing as how it’s impossible for us to tell if the claim is a lie or the truth, and in the spirit of the Department of Homeland Security’s “If you see something, say something” advice, it will be interesting to see if WaPo rats the guy out and volunteers his information (email and IP addresses, etc.) to the feds.

Also see: “‘He’s LYING’: Tweeters call BS on congressional hopeful’s ‘gun show loophole’ exposé”

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Holder and Hogg Counting on Student Bloodbath to Do What Fast and Furious Could Not

The Gunwalker Man couldn’t get semi-autos banned when he was in power. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. (Eric Holder in t-shirt Twitter photo “repurposed” with a design I helped create).

“Former Attorney General Eric Holder discussed on Friday strategy for how to achieve what he views as meaningful gun control with Parkland, Fla., shooting survivor David Hogg,” The Washington Examiner notes, reporting on the pair getting face time with fellow gun-grabber Bill Maher on HBO’s “Real Time.”

“If the only thing that comes out of this tragedy is we outlaw bump stocks and we raise the age at which people are allowed to buy an AR-15, that will be a failure,” Holder claimed. “Because the reality – from my perspective – is you need to do what we’ve always tried to do, which is to ban the sale of AR-15s, have universal background checks, and also take away the ability to buy these large magazines.”

The guy never has been much on Founding intent for either the Second Amendment or the oath of office he took, which is supposed to be for life.  So it’s hardly surprising he’s going after weapons  that have “some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia [that] could contribute to the common defense [so that] when called for service these men were expected to appear bearing arms supplied by themselves and of the kind in common use at the time.”

You can’t catch him – he’s the Gunwalker Man!

Wannabe tyrants can’t have that, and besides, this is something Holder’s been going after for a long time. From 2009, he floated a premature trial balloon a year-and-a-half before Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered in an Arizona desert and a weapon found at the scene was the catalyst for exposing ATF’s lethal Operation Fast and Furious “gunwalking” plot:

“Holder said … it would help cut down on the flow of guns going across the border into Mexico, which is struggling with heavy violence among drug cartels along the border.”

And “botched gun sting” media cover notwithstanding, the reason behind the murderous practice was spelled out early on in my investigations by an ATF insider disgusted with what management was doing:

“ATF source confirms ‘walking’ guns to Mexico to ‘pad’ statistics”

Despite perjury, stonewalling, being held in contempt of Congress and being given a pass on ethics violations by insider cronies, or perhaps because escaping accountability has emboldened him to be even more in-your-face about his untouchability, he’s back trying to make murdered schoolchildren do for his goals what murdered Mexicans could not: Disarm countrymen he loathes.

So naturally young Boss Hogg is singing from the same page, although to minimize the role of the totalitarian lobby’s newest citizen disarmament rock star to that of “survivor” is to mask the well-organized, well-funded and well-connected interests bankrolling the “March for Our Lives.” The newly-realized media reality that virtue-oozing youths trump loudmouthed, middle-aged moms at swaying emotions über alles useful idiots.

“I do see the reason to have a weapon, and I do see the reason behind the Second Amendment. But I think we should have limitations on the Second Amendment, the same way we have limitations on the First [Amendment],” Hogg asserted, “comparing shouting ‘fire’ in a crowded movie theater to mentally unstable individuals buying an AR-15.”

See, that makes him appear “reasonable” to mask the end goals from people who don’t know any better and who can’t see though what a fraudulent argument he’s making.

Of course you can — there are no prior restraints. It’s just that there had better be a fire.

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ conveniently misstated quote was:

“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.”

You can’t open fire in a crowded theater either, at least not unless it’s also legally justifiable. No one but a deceiving gun-grabber would try to get people to think otherwise. And, of course, if this child had gone to a school that actually taught non-”progressive” American “history,” he’d know what people of the Founding era would have said about that:

If we really want to compare free speech with RKBA…

We have an old subversive and a young one in training. And the kid is supposed to be sacrosanct and immune from criticism, giving the insiders backing him a pass from having their own motives quesitoned too closely. Proving their power to punish those who aren’t afraid to cross the self-serving boundaries they would impose, “progressive” social media monopolists are deleting the accounts of those who dare question his credibility.

Bull. If up to him and Holder, there will be plenty more victims and mourners. They want — they need — vulnerable schoolchildren. They want our guns. And they want men with guns in the employ of the powers behind them to execute their demands, even if it means more bloodbaths.

The hell with them. And the hell with those they serve.

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‘Tis The Season…For FALSE FLAGS! The Elites Need To Control Bitcoin

You may think it’s the fall season, but its actually false flag season in the United States. And humans have proven themselves very easy to manipulate with these staged events.

Mike Adams of Natural News put out a new video, in which he declares it to be “false flag season.” And he says the big one could be right around the corner. “What kinds of agendas do the powers that be want to achieve?” Adams asks. “Now, under the Obama Administration, there were always mass shooting false flags.”

With all of the known false flags (like Fast and Furious, Barack Obama and Eric Holder’s gun-running scheme) you have to wonder what’s coming next.  Adams suggests looking at what the globalists and elitists want or need to happen in the United States in order to push an agenda. Adams says that Bitcoin has become a thorn in the government’s side, and they will need a major terror attack funded by the cryptocurrency, so look for that in the near future.  Once the false flag terror attack funded by Bitcoin happens, the government can blame the cryptocurrency and funnel it all into a regulated system that they can tax and regulate making it no longer anonymous or decentralized.

Adams also has a theory on North Korea. “Suppose the government wanted to attack North Korea,” he says. “Couldn’t they just fake like North Korea launched a missile that destroyed…let’s say detonated 5 miles west of the major port in Long Beach; the Long Beach Port in California. Couldn’t the government just set off its own bomb out there and say ‘Kim Jong-Un did it;’ and then use that as a justification to attack North Korea?”

Just keep your eyes open.  False flags can take many different forms and the government continues to use them to manipulate the minds of the public and have them accept less freedom in exchange for more security.  It all seems like this Hollywood movie, but unfortunately for us, its real life – and the elites are gambling with our freedom to expand a totalitarian state.

Lawsuit Filed Against State Department for Ignoring Fast and Furious Freedom of Information Act Request

Read the complaint.

“Today we filed suit against the Department of State on behalf of Kent Terry and David Codrea,” Stamboulieh Law, PLLC announced Sunday. The complaint was filed due to State’s inaction on complying with a Freedom of Information Act Request submitted in June, 2016 seeking information on correspondence, documents and the like pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious “gunwalking” and State Department interactions with the government of Mexico.

There are multiple reasons for filing the request, AmmoLand Shooting Sports News reported when the FOIA (read it here) was filed, primarily because it explores an area that has been left largely unresolved by official inquiries from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General. Included in the concerns:

• To corroborate if the government of Mexico was intentionally not informed of a U.S. government law enforcement operation where it was known guns were being illegally exported across its border.


• To determine if Arms Export Control Act regulations were violated and/or ignored.


• To seek further information on why the then-White House Counsel denied the House Oversight Committee access to a former National Security Council official who had been given information on Gun Running Impact Teams by the former top ATF official in Phoenix associated with Fast and Furious, along with the disclaimer “You didn’t get these from me.”

Stamboulieh with Dick Heller at Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

“DoS was required to determine whether to comply with Plaintiffs’ request within twenty (20) working days of receiving the request, or on or about July 29, 2016,” the complaint asserts. “Because DoS failed to determine whether to comply with Plaintiffs’ request within the time period required by FOIA, Plaintiffs are deemed to have exhausted their administrative remedies.”

Because of what appears to be deliberate indifference and stonewalling, the court is being asked to:

• “Order Defendant to conduct a search for any and all responsive records to Plaintiffs’ FOIA request…


• “Produce, by a date certain, any and all non-exempt records to Plaintiffs’ FOIA request…


• “Enjoin Defendants from continuing to withhold any and all nonexempt records…


• “Grant Plaintiff an award of attorneys’ fees and other litigation costs reasonably incurred…


• “Grant Plaintiff such other relief as the Court deems just and proper.”

Terry and sister Michelle received assurances from Donald Trump.

This independent action by private citizens, a man demanding justice for a brother slain in the line of duty in an action involving Fast and Furious weapons, and a gun owner rights advocate is further warranted because:

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FULL MEASURE: June 25, 2017 – Fast and Furious – Sharyl Attkisson

It’s one of the longest running Congressional investigations of our time: the probe into Fast and Furious, the government’s secret operation to allow thousands of weapons to be trafficked to Mexico’s killer drug cartels. In today’s cover story, we catch up on unfinished business more than six years later.

From Full Measure: http://fullmeasure.news/

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Without Personal Consequences, Oversight Fast and Furious Report Brings No One Closer to Justice

To paraphrase a line from “The Dirty Dozen”: Very pretty. But can they fight? (House Oversight and Government Reform Committee )

“Committee releases Fast & Furious report: Obstruction of Congress by the Department of Justice,” a Wednesday House Oversight and Government Reform Committee press release reads. “Documents obtained after years of litigation reveal the full depth of DOJ’s obstructionist tactics.”

The Committee then lists “key takeaways” of the 263-page report, essentially claiming:

• Holder’s DOJ didn’t give a damn about slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s family.


• Holder’s DOJ conducted a sham “investigation” designed to spin rather than reveal.


• Holder’s DOJ didn’t give a damn about Congress.

Let me step back for a moment and allow Gomer to weigh in on this:

The Committee needed more documents to come to those conclusions? Really? And now that they have them, what are they going to do with them?

Are they going to subpoena characters like former National Security Council North American Affairs Director Kevin O’Reilly, rather than lamely accept his refusal to testify on why he requested information from ATF SAC William Newell and was then conveniently assigned out-of-country when questions started being asked? And why that refusal was insisted upon by the then-White House Counsel?

Are they going to do anything to find out what State (Hillary) knew and when it (she) knew it?

Are they planning on directing Holder to testify anew, and leveling any further charges? Like perjury?

Will anyone be held legally accountable for the hundreds of deaths from a cynical program designed, as an ATF insider noted early on, “to pad statistics” (as opposed to the ubiquitous (and demonstrably ridiculous) “botched gun sting” excuse promulgated by the media? Will anyone end up behind bars?

A promise is a promise, Mr. President.

It’s also fair to ask – outside of the Committee – what does President Trump intend to actually do to keep his promise to the Terry family to get to the bottom of this? And will AG Sessions’ self-recusal on this have any impact on that?

If I seem cynical, you’ll either have to forgive me – or not. The record of how this ball got rolling is right here if anyone is interested.  Mike Vanderboegh and I were pleading then for Congress and the media to do something meaningful then, and people have no idea what that effort actually required and took.  I’m tired of pleading. It’s enough that we have been borne out, even if we and a handful are the only ones likely to ever be aware of those efforts.

Even fewer will ever realize that had Oversight not ignored our public pleas from a few years earlier, ATF would have been under scrutiny in 2009, before they ever started sanctioning gunwalking.

Bottom line: If the upshot of all this is words, finger-pointing, political gamesmanship, media placement and no results, this report will be representative of nothing so much as a line from Macbeth:

[I]t is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,

Signifying nothing.

Prove me wrong, Oversight Committee. I beg you.

NOTE: Some of the links used in this article will be slow-loading. The referenced articles originally appeared on the now-discontinued Examiner.com site and are now only retrievable via the Internet Archive/Wayback Machine.

Here’s the related Committee recording of “Fast and Furious: Six Years Later”:

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Gun-Grabbing ‘Sanctuary Lawmaker’ Admits ‘Half of My Family’ Breaking Law

Oath-breaking California politician Kevin De Léon proving he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and using that to scare the ignorant and the fearful into more infringements on their rights.

“California State Senate President Pro Tem Kevin De Léon (D-Los Angeles) that ‘half his family’ was in the country illegally, using false documents, and eligible for deportation under President Trump’s new executive order against ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions,” former California State Assemblyman Tim Donnelly reported on Breitbart. “De Léon, who introduced the bill, made his remarks at a hearing in Sacramento on SB54, the bill to make California a ‘Sanctuary State.’”

In addition to defending the practice of obtaining fraudulent documents and dismissing citizen concerns over identity theft, De Léon “expressed outrage” that it should be a deportable offense for foreign nationals — already here illegally – to then falsely obtain a Social Security card. That’s even though any person who “willfully, knowingly, and with intent to deceive, uses a social security account number, assigned by the Commissioner of Social Security … to establish and maintain records) on the basis of false information furnished to the Commissioner of Social Security by him or by any other person … shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof shall be fined under title 18, United States Code, or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both.”

As is typical, the law is what De Léon and his fellow California “progressives” say it is. Laws they oppose are to be disregarded. In other words, he stands for lawlessness and tyranny.

The thing is, they don’t extend that same entitlement to the non-elite citizenry. They’re too busy stripping them of their rights.  Case in point, De Léon’s oath of office was a mere ceremonial formality. Because where the Second Amendment is concerned, he never saw an infringement he didn’t like, author, co-sponsor or vote for. He’s so against guns, he’s even against guns that don’t exist (except in his ignorant and/or opportunistic mind):

De Léon said he is trying to address a twin threat from what he called “ghost guns” — plastic guns that can slip through metal detectors and unregistered weapons that can fall into the hands of people who are legally prohibited from owning firearms under state law.

He brags about his citizen disarmament “victories”:

This year, he led the charge for the most stringent gun control policies in a generation, leading efforts to approve 11 measures, including his groundbreaking bill, SB 1235, which requires background checks for anyone who buys or sells ammunition.

So it’s no surprise that when purporting to hold a community meeting on ““California’s Gun and Ammo Pipeline to the Mexican Drug Cartels,” De Léon used it as a platform to stump for more citizen disarmament, repeating the tired old lie about the preponderance of “Mexican crime guns” originating in U.S. gun shops. He dismissed Congressional investigations into ATF’s murder-abetting Operation Fast and Furious “gunwalking,” instead expressing “[deep concern] that some in Congress are more focused on distracting the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms from their core mission and getting to the bottom of failed policies of the past.”

De Léon is living proof that unchecked immigration and a “pathway to citizenship” represents an existential threat to the nation and its Constitution.

“His mom, the single mother of three children, originally entered the country illegally and worked cleaning upscale homes for a living,” AllGov reveals.  And his politics of culturally terraforming this country into one more like the one his mother fled is hardly unique.

All credible polls – and significantly, the California experience – show the MILLIONS of foreign nationals in this country illegally (and even legally, with current culturally suicidal policies) overwhelmingly favor Democrats and anti-gunners.  That means ultimately, the legislatures will look just like California, and will be able to pass whatever citizen disarmament edicts they like, and when that happens, judges will be nominated and confirmed to uphold those edicts, and reverse gains made to date.

True, not all fit the mold.  Everyone can produce anecdotes that don’t conform to the trend. But we’re talking overall and overwhelming numbers being the threat here, and those numbers continue to hold even after so-called “assimilation”:

Such confident Democrat affinity for immigration, both legal and illegal, becomes obvious when you look at the numbers, as Pew research did in a 2012 “Political Party Affiliation among Hispanics” poll. Whether you look at all, at registered voters, at native born, foreign born, unauthorized, legal permanent residents or foreign-born US citizens, that affiliation is overwhelmingly Democrat. Refuting those who would have us believe eventual assimilation will create more political homogeneity, the lop-sidedness continues as time goes on. Only 10 percent identify as Republicans after “20 years or more.”

The United States is under no obligation to admit and include foreign national. Any immigration policy it does adopt is supposed to comport with the reasons for its existence in the first place, as articulated in the Preamble:

“…to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity…”

You can’t do that by admitting foreigners who are hostile to those ends, and by then affording them political power with which to undermine freedom at the expense of ourselves and our Posterity. And you can’t do that by letting ignorance-exploiting lies become the basis for public policy, as exemplified in the following video:

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