Obama administration caught “loading their guns” for a new round of anti-gun legislation
For a decade, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been forbidden by Congress from doing research on gun-control issues. Such piddling hurdles as federal law don’t matter to the Obama administration.
With a wave of a hand, the CDC has simply redefined gun-control research so the ban no longer applies.
By Gerard Valentino
The national establishment media is getting a lot of mileage from another of New York Mayor Bloomberg’s dirty tricks. In this case, the Mayor sent private investigators to gun shows in several states to prove that illegal gun trafficking is taking place, and that criminals can easily buy firearms in unregulated private transactions.
Video collected at several guns shows showed private citizens selling guns, even though the prospective buyer claimed he could not pass the background check required to buy a gun through a licensed gun dealer.
Clearly, Mayor Bloomberg set up a situation to benefit his view that guns bought at gun shows are the cause of violent crime in New York. He also needed to show New Yorkers that the guns used in crimes in his city are coming from outside of New York, and that the situation is therefore out of his control.
This issue, however, is bigger than Mayor Bloomberg’s crusade to end private gun ownership and show the gun violence in New York is not his fault.
Each time someone takes part in an illegal sale at a gun show, it puts the rights of law-abiding gun owners at risk because it plays into the hands of the anti-gun movement by giving credence to the existence of a “gun show loophole.”
By Jeff Knox
People who “have nothing to hide” are often quite happy to answer any questions and consent to any intrusion a police officer might ask of them. They may even invite officers to “look around” if they want to. If you ask a good defense attorney how much you should cooperate with police, particularly when they are conducting an investigation in which you could possibly be a suspect, he will tell you “Not at all.” Don’t give them one word more than you must and never give them permission to search your car, look through your home, or examine any of your guns.
David Olofson took the “nothing to hide” approach. When the police confiscated one of his firearms from a friend he had loaned it to, Olofson freely chatted with police about how many guns he had, how many he has built, how he helps people to buy and assemble their own AR-platform rifles, and quite a bit more. David Olofson’s loquacious ways probably helped to put him in prison for 30 months for illegally transferring an unregistered machine gun – that was actually just a malfunctioning semi-auto – and his case has set a very dangerous precedent which threatens all gun owners.
Polls will be open across the state of Ohio and around the nation today, and once again, pro-gun voters will have a disproportionate impact on the election outcome here in the Buckeye…
An article from Cleveland Plain Dealer outdoor writer D’Arcy Egan recently allowed the newspaper to deviate from its usual modus operandi of negatively stereotyping gun ownership.
By Gerard Valentino
The media recently brought us news yet another senseless death took place on the killing fields of Chicago. Yet again, it was a high school age victim, and the altercation was gang related.
Unfortunately for Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, he won’t be able to use this murder in his never-ending crusade to ban guns in the city. In this case, the young man who senselessly lost his life was beaten to death in a mass fight described as a “melee” by witnesses.
Back in June, we reported on a proposed U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) rule change that would have expanded the Switchblade Knife Act of 1958 to include spring-assisted or one-handed-opening knives,…
By Publius
Mayor Bloomberg’s “investigation” of gun shows in Ohio presents an opportunity for gun owners in the Buckeye state – an opportunity that we must seize if gun shows are to survive.
The choice facing us is simple: Change how gun shows operate, or gun shows will be legislated/litigated out of business. The loss of gun shows would be a devastating blow to the First Amendment rights of gun owners. Yes, I said First Amendment.
Let’s get something out of the way upfront so we can concentrate on our issues: Mayor Bloomberg is exceeding his authority, is wrong, has no business doing investigations in Ohio, his investigators are breaking the law, he released heavily edited versions of his tapes, all the conduct he complains of is already illegal and prohibited etc etc etc.
None of that matters. Now, can we concentrate on our own problems and administer some tough love?
Taken from the most recent “Page Nine”, Alan Korwin’s “The Uninvited Ombudsman Report”
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1- 1,400 Arrest 46
The lamestream media told you:
Thomas Watkins, reporting for the AP, writes: “More than a thousand law-enforcement officers descended Tuesday on the homes of key members of a notorious street gang suspected of killing a sheriff’s deputy and murdering rivals while defying authorities for decades. A federal indictment identified 88 suspects and detailed criminal activity spanning more than a decade… 1,100 police officers worked with nearly 300 federal agents to arrest 46 gang members (39 were already in custody)… Among them was Tammy Armstrong, a corrections officer accused of helping incarcerated gang members… gang members strafed L.A. police in Feb., 2008… off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff’s Deputy Juan Escalante was shot dead in Aug., 2008 in front of his parents’ home northeast of downtown.” http://tinyurl.com/mw2k9a
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
By Gerard Valentino
Columbuslocalnews.com is reporting that Ohio’s most rabidly anti-gun organization has begun staging prayer vigils to remind the community of the ravages of homicides and violent crime.
The Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence, led by Toby Hoover, has a long and sorry history of dancing in the blood of murder victims. Their tactic of staging prayer vigils reaches a new low, as it exploits the family members and friends of homicide victims for political gain. Trotting out the victim’s family after a homicide is the lowest form of political propaganda, and preys on people when they are at their most vulnerable.
If Toby’s group waited until the family left for the funeral and robbed the house, it would show the same lack of basic decency as displaying grieving widows and orphans as though they are part of a circus freak show.
Moral outrage over such a complete lack of human dignity is warranted. And our disgust shouldn’t only be directed at Toby Hoover’s unthinkable act, because her propaganda is useless without the willing participation of the establishment news media.