25 years ago, the United States government used accusations of illegal gun parts to raid a church, the resultant raid left 82 men, women, and children dead.
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After a state passed a law making the possession of bump stocks for firearms illegal, police were apparently shocked when only a few individuals voluntarily turned their devices in.
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Winning approval from statists,the media, “progressives’ and oath-breaking LEOs is evidently more important than winning games and retaining fans.
“The 49ers announced today that they are joining local and national law enforcement in signing a pledge for a ‘more understanding and safer America,’” Nick Wagoner of ESPN “reports” (if you can call it that). “The Niners have pledged $500,000 toward the campaign, which will advocate for legislation banning ‘bump stocks’ and other mechanisms that allow semi automatic weapons to become automatic weapons, as well as silencers and armor piercing bullets.”
Here’s the presser and the group grope.
For an outfit with the resources of ESPN to get so much so wrong in such a short amount of space is nothing less than journalistic malpractice. Devices that facilitate “bump firing” do not turn “allow semi automatic weapons to become automatic weapons.” The retired ATF firearms analyst responsible for the ruling explains:
Likewise, those who wish to prevent suppressor rules from being eased use Hollywood hyperbole and fear, and as far as ‘armor piercing bullets” go, without seeing that term qualified, most will assume it refers to stuff that will go through tank plating, as opposed to rated-for-handguns body armor that common rifle rounds will defeat.
It’s not like ESPN has ever given a damn about the right of the people to keep and bear arms. Quite the opposite.
So leave it to them and to “social justice”-oozing NFL “progressives” to come up with yet another way to alienate their core audience. After seeing the #TakeAKnee nonsense result in lower attendance and ratings, you’d think an adult with the league would start acting like it’s a business, and put a stop to pampered bellyachers driving away their customers.
As an aside, it was nice to see former Steelers halfback Rocky Bleier reiterate what we already discussed, that shutting down the protests would not violate anyone’s rights as articulated under the First Amendment:
“It’s very simply this: This is a workplace, you are at the stadium, you are working that day, this is not a platform for protest. The American people, they can’t go to their workplace and start to protest about whatever may be happening in their life. That wouldn’t be allowed and that shouldn’t be allowed in the NFL.”
Just don’t tell that to “Reverend” Jesse Jackson, who just outdid himself for race-hustling grievance mongering:
“To go from picking cotton balls to picking up footballs and basketballs without freedom is not very much progress.”
Seeing that moronic false equivalency, some advice from “Tropic Thunder” comes to mind.
It’s a fact of life that boycotting everyone who deserves it would be problematic for most, and end up hurting us when we deny ourselves essential products or services for which no competitive alternatives exist. But ESPN, other networks and the NFL are hardly essential, and, in fact, are arguably detrimental in terms of the “bread and circuses” environment they create. So in this case, it should not be a hardship to cease, literally, giving aid and comfort to these enemies of the Second Amendment.
And it’s not like we don’t have plenty of superior and more rewarding alternatives. Go the range. Take a walk and get the blood going. Reload some ammo. Take stock of your preparedness. Spend quality time with people you love. Read a book.
And tell subversive athletes, teams and networks to #TakeAHike.
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You got that right. But so are us “Trojan Horses.”
“Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Wednesday the Trump administration should move quickly to ban ‘bump stocks’– a device used in the Las Vegas mass shooting that allows semi-automatic weapons to fire more rapidly,” The Hill reported Wednesday. “’We think the regulatory fix is the smartest, quickest fix, and I’d frankly like to know how it happened in the first place,’ Ryan said at a news conference in the Capitol.”
The guy had never even heard of bump stocks a week ago:
“I didn’t even know what they were until this week, and I’m an avid sportsman,” Ryan said of bump stocks. He added: “Fully automatic weapons have been banned for a long time. Apparently, this allows you to take a semiautomatic, turn it into a fully automatic, so clearly that’s something we need to look into.”
This guy’s the Speaker? And now he’s set to ban them in a way that places arbitrary decision-making in the hands of ATF – an agency that can’t keep its own rules and records straight. Doing it that way gives Ryan the added benefit of maintaining the illusion of “pro-gun” bona fides, and leaves Congress, the people’s representatives, unaccountable for the fallout, or for political payback.
And he’s getting away with it because the National Rifle Association (along with NSSF and SAAMI) gave Republicans the green light to proceed:
“Despite the fact that the Obama administration approved the sale of bump fire stocks on at least two occasions, the National Rifle Association is calling on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) to immediately review whether these devices comply with federal law. The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semi-automatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations.”
They’ve all been convinced that they have to give up something ever since Newtown — I know because I was privy to some conversations and correspondence at the time where a few of us let it be known that we would not allow them to scapegoat gun owners and walk away unreported. And they’re all subscribing to the absurd, not-found-in-Nature theory that that you can throw a scrap of flesh to a pack of circling jackals, and sated, they’ll go away and leave you alone. Instead of deciding there’s plenty more where that came from.
“Oh, but you fail to understand the genius move,” I’ve been told by “pragmatic” NRA apologists. Bump stocks aren’t a hill worth dying on. Plus we’ll get suppressors and concealed carry reciprocity. As soon as things cool off. Well sure, the midterms are coming up but we can trust the Republican leadership. When have they ever let us down?
Besides, if this goes to legislation, the Democrats will come up with something really bad.
They already have, and it’s being co-led by “turncoat Republicans.” But instead of reining them in and reminding everyone why the GOP enjoys a majority in the House and Senate, and the presidency, thanks to gun owners, and that they can turn back any legislation as long as they have the guts and the will, and instead of giving them the information needed to educate and inform their constituents, we see a base political calculation that the problem will go away if only we throw something under the bus.
Make that “someone.” A lot of someones, particularly those whose lives will be destroyed if they’re caught in violation of such “regulations”…
Ah, but “good, law-abiding Americans” wouldn’t do that says former NRA President Marion Hammer, who claims to be “refuting misinformation & distortion of facts.”
In her mind, NRA isn’t calling for new regulation, simply correcting a prior ATF “wink and nod” oversight, and besides, it’s the bump stock manufacturer’s fault anyway for trying to game the system. Just like all those workarounds to “assault weapon” cosmetics NRA has previously defended? Or will thumbhole stocks and the like be the next expendables?
In her mind, NRA directors questioning the preemptive surrender are doing so to “elevate their own popularity.” Never mind that the proclamation was made without consulting the Board.
Members who question it are “dissidents and ‘Trojan Horse members.” Not the first time I’ve been called that…
We’re disloyal. Heretics. NRA bashers. Where have I heard that before?
As for “misinterpreting what the NRA has said,” how you can do that by providing a link to the statement and an exact quote remains unsaid.
Here’s where she goes completely off the rails:
“[L]ike all good, honest, law-abiding Americans, the NRA obeys the law… NRA has called for enforcing existing law. “
So had this been at the time of the Revolution, NRA’s position would have been “Enforce existing Intolerable Acts”? And if you engage in the time-honored American tradition of civil disobedience against edicts that violate “the supreme Law of the Land,” you’re neither “good” nor “honest”?
Who are the real law-breakers here?
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this position—and wording – used by NRA.
“Bill did what any honest, law-abiding American would do…he turned in his SKS Sporter to the police.”
That’s what NRA’s Ginny Simone said about a gun confiscation in California 15 years ago, when NRA’s lawyer provided the escort service for the firearm surrender.
So if Dianne Feinstein succeeds in making “Mr. and Mrs. America, turn ‘em all in” a reality, Hammer and the NRA would consider refusal to do so dishonest and bad?
Turn ‘em all in, Captain Parker?
In the interests of full disclosure (although the people who actually know me trust me to be good and honest) I fall far short of Hammer’s criteria for being “law-abiding.” I not only illegally carried a gun (on the advice of a concerned cop investigating a death threat against me) in Southern California because I literally couldn‘t get a “permit” to save my life, but I also very publicly refused to register my “assault weapon” even after NRA arranged a surrender-fest.
Think about the orders Oath Keepers will not obey. The very first one:
“We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people.”
I’m an American. I will not obey orders to disarm me. It’s not just my birthright, it’s my duty.
As for bump stocks not being a hill to die on, it’s not about bump stocks. Think of those as the MacGuffin, as interchangeable as the Maltese Falcon, the Pink Panther diamond, or Peewee’s bicycle. It’s about “shall not be infringed.”
It’s about not surrendering and giving an enemy that has made no secret of its ultimate goal of total disarmament a beachhead from which to launch its next incursion. If it’s bump stocks today, what will it be tomorrow that “good, law-abiding Americans” will be told to surrender – and branded “dissidents and ‘Trojan Horses’” by NRA’s “leaders” if we object?
And when it;s too late to “vote to change the law” because NRA showed deliberate indifference to the single biggest threat against the Second Amendment by falling back on the wholly disingenuous “single issue” excuse?
It’s no accident they’ve never signaled which hill is worth dying on, if any.
With so many lies it’s easy to get lost in them. (Nancy Pelosi live stream screen shot)
“House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that she ‘certainly hopes’ a ban on ‘bump stocks’ will open the door to additional gun control actions,” Fox News Insider reports.
“They’re going to say, ‘You give them bump stock, it’s going to be a slippery slope.’ I certainly hope so,” Pelosi confirmed.
It’s part of a move to do more than demonize and ban “bump stocks” by Democrats, who will be happy take that if it’s given to them and then press on for more in their feeding frenzy to capitalize on the Las Vegas murders. That has to be understood by the Republican “leadership, which nonetheless is signaling its willingness to join in throwing the novelty items under the bus now that the National Rifle Association has given them the green light. I talk about why I think that’s a terrible idea in my latest AmmoLand piece.
The curious thing about Pelosi invoking “slippery slope” language is it was not that long ago the gun-grabbers would ridicule gun owner rights advocates as paranoid if they suggested there was one.
Even though that’s been the plan from the start of the modern gun owner control movement:
“We’re going to have to take one step at a time, and the first step is necessarily — given the political realities — going to be very modest. . . . [W]e’ll have to start working again to strengthen that law, and then again to strengthen the next law, and maybe again and again. Right now, though, we’d be satisfied not with half a loaf but with a slice. Our ultimate goal — total control of handguns in the United States — is going to take time. . . . The first problem is to slow down the number of handguns being produced and sold in this country. The second problem is to get handguns registered. The final problem is to make possession of all handguns and all handgun ammunition-except for the military, police, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors-totally illegal. — Richard Harris, A Reporter at Large: Handguns, New Yorker, July 26, 1976, at 53, 58 (quoting Pete Shields, founder of Handgun Control, Inc.)…”
I first addressed the “slippery slope/paranoid” accusations back in 2005:
- “THE FEDERAL ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN IS JUST THE FIRST STEP ON A SLIPPERY SLOPE TO BAN ALL GUNS IN AMERICA ” — Response: Wrong. There is no hidden agenda behind saving the Federal Assault Weapons Act.”–The Brady Campaign
- “Fearful of becoming enmeshed in the gun lobby’s ‘slippery slope’ argument (that any gun control, no matter how limited, is the first step toward total gun confiscation), many actively voiced their opposition to a handgun ban, warning that ban proponents would marginalize the entire movement. They could offer no proof of this claim—yet the argument took hold.”–Ban Handguns Now
- “In this debate, it is the National Rifle Assn. that is the true purveyor of fiction. In its paranoid world, any measure to make you safer is the first step on the slippery slope to taking away its members’ rights.”–Richard North Patterson at Common Dreams
Admittedly, because so much time has elapsed, the embedded links at WarOnGuns no longer work. So don’t take my word for it that these people were and are demonstrable liars. Take oath-breaker Nancy’s:
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