I’ll be watching this most of the day, so consider this thread an open thread, as well as a thread where I’ll be commenting on a set of lawmakers, in league with the federal government, presuming to take away a natural right.
There will be much “discussion” and much “debate,” and none of it will matter: Democrat lawmakers have gotten their marching orders, and all they are looking for now is some plausible (or rather, what they think the public will see as “plausible”) rationale for taking away a right under the aegis of “the public good.”
It matters not that their actions create a less safe public; or that their actions are unconstitutional. It only matters what they think they can get away with, and what opportunities they can find to use to push their agenda. And that agenda is to break down the culture of individual autonomy and replace it with collectivism.
Today is about power, not gun control.
Also, as a side note, today will mark the end of my March fundraiser. Thanks to all who have contributed. I’ve fallen a bit short of my goal, but I understand that times are tough, so no worries.
As a second side note, Satchel will be competing in yet another tournament tomorrow deep in the eastern plains, so I’ll be coaching and won’t be around much. Best of luck, Satch!
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update:
Senate Bill 197 addresses domestic violence – has advanced
Senate Bill 195 would ban online concealed carry permit courses – has advanced
currently: Senate takes up universal background checks
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update 2:
Bill mandating universal background checks for gun transfers, including private sales, advances
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update 3:
Poll tax on background checks and transfers advances.
Next up, “high-cap” mag bans. Except for government agents and functionaries. Naturally.
“Colorado Democrat State Senator” is an anagram for ‘Comatose cold sore to a retardant.’
colorado means “colored red” you know
like communists
and patriot blood
and fire trucks
and roses
and solo cups
but mostly like communists
Democrats suck.
I can’t bear to watch the clown show but look forward to tomorrow’s slimmed-down list of targets to isolate, freeze and destroy.
I will savor the sizzle and the rend, as we devour these
pretenders’ reputations molecule by tender molecule. Like Killer T-Cells dissolve a colony of unwanted bacillus: we’ll surround these germs, and engulf them in vaccuoles, and digest them in Peroxide: If one of them has a mistress, let’s interrogate her prior housecleaner; if one of them has a vagina, let’s pay Andrew Sullivan to probe it (figuratively, of course – this is a family blog); and if one of them has a post-pubescent, female child, let’s cajole David Letterman to deflower her on national TV.
Goose, meet Gander. Now, here’s some sauce!
And Arizona means “stinking desert”
I was able to order 10 pmags from Magpul; my wife also ordered 10. I’ve also been able to acquire an AR15 lower from a pal of mine who’s a gun dealer — and have a line on a heavy barrel Bushmaster, also from a buddy, who has agreed to work with me on payment (I probably can’t do anything until May).
I also found some polymer SCAR-17 Mags at $70 each from a place called molonlabeindustries. I ordered 4 of those and pre-ordered 3 25-round polymer mags, hoping that the order, because it is charged up front, pre-dates any ban.
Financially, I’m totally tapped out. The new truck — which requires me to pay $900 for license plates — has set us back. And this gun ban looming has compelled me to leverage my credit in order to make sure I’m covered in the likely event of a ban.
What this country has become is fucking absurd and in many ways obscene.
I’m depressed.
Watch a few episodes of Duck Dynasty, that always cheers me up.
Jeff, my best to Satch, may he kick ass.
What pisses me off more than anything is those two tools, McCain and Graham, crapping all over Rand Paul’s filibuster. Those two assholes refuse to understand the only reason they’re even invited on tv is due to their willingness to bash members of the GOP while giving plaudits to Democrats.
Those two assholes refuse to understand the only reason they’re even invited on tv is due to their willingness to bash members of the GOP while giving plaudits to Democrats
oh no. no no no. It’s much better to assume they know exactly what they’re doing, if only because they do know. Which, of course, only makes the act the worse. But then, why wouldn’t it be?
$900 for license plates is not america
“Mo” is urban slang for “more.” “Jo” is a gutteral contraction of the word “juice,” a popular sugary drink, which, in ghetto lore can mean any intoxicating substance.
In nineties’ urban lingo the two were commonly combined to form “MoJo.” The literal translation of which is, “More Juice, Please!” but without the “Please,” a subtle enough demand.
But one whose deeper menace is exposed when translated for an urban audience: In Ghetto-ese” it becomes “Give Me More Buzz, Just ‘Cuz.” Which sounds like something a robber says to the liquor store owner just before he holds it up.
Just sayin’s all! (Don’t Mess With Arizona!)
Lord help us dump McCain!
So, is the campus CCW ban dead? That would be a good start.
Lee. DD has a 20% special today on t-shirts. I already have a “Happy Happy Happy” shirt, so I bought a beanie. And Ms Kay’s cooking DVD.
Pablo, I’m not sure. We can hope. Right now I’m listening to debate on why we have to strip those accused of domestic violence of their guns, even though there already exists a law denying them new gun purchases.
Particularly now with the VAWA, unpleasant language against the transgendered, eg.. can come to be termed domestic violence. Any way they can figure out how to get a gun away from you they will use.
And the national Republicans, caucusing with the Democrats, helped.
sdferr,
After the way McCain ran his election campaign, I sincerely doubt McCain knows what he is doing.
Graham is still the same milquetoast fainting couch RINO he always was. Unfortunately, Graham thinks he is “new and improved” because of all the tv face time.
So, due process is outdated, passé. How sad.
Sorry, that link duplicated Pablo @ 11:27.
An epistemological position is a tough nut to crack Blake, but doesn’t the mere consistency which both McCain and Graham make in their various appearances on various issues over long spans of time suggest that they must know, in some (possibly circumscribed, to include consultation with personal habit, say) sense of knowing, what it is they intend to do and in the event, do do? Or, that is, they don’t arrive at their positions willy-nilly — randomly — which a genuinely ignorant individual might be supposed to do? Wouldn’t it be safer to assume they possess the ownership of their acts, in this sense?
The White House gun control strategy for it’s allies. Sit down, shut up, back us 100%, or else.
Sounds a lot like how they treat everyone, everywhere.
sdferr, the old saw about malice and incompetence comes to mind.
Seriously though, I tended to just sigh when it comes to McCain and Graham. I no longer sigh, I actively despise both of them.
Honestly, I don’t think McCain or Graham know or care about the problems they’re creating, as long as their little egos get fluffed by the siren song of network tv.
I used to think it refreshing when they announced their blatant fascism. Now, it’s frustrating instead, because they tell everyone what they are actually doing but few are listening.
Feinstein, Vets too crazy to have guns.
I have a feeling Senator Gibson’s bill won’t get very far. It’s a trial balloon.
Clearly Ms. Gibson is just another paid-for shill in the pocket of BIG ANGER MANAGEMENT.
There isn’t an amendment the left doesn’t hate.
I kinda wish such trial balloons could serve as trial lenses of the non-fitness of such as Sen. Gibson in the public trust she holds in office, and be efficiently put to use in order to purge her stupidities, along with her person, from the Senate — tarred, feathered and on a splintery rail, if need be.
balloons are also red, oftentimes
but that’s how wars get started
$900 for license plates
What, do they wash the windows and change the oil?
Feinstein thinks the only standard for gun ownership is employment. Government employment.
She also apparently thinks PTSD only cam into existence after the Iraq war.
Because she’s a drooling idiot. That’s for both.
Yes, it was a long reach, but sorta well done, I guess.
Anybody here from New Mexico, or can I just let fly?
New Mexico? Let’er rip.
Gun control is hitting your target; anger management means choosing the most deserving target.
Colorado/Wyoming.
proggtardia news
Brennan Swears Oath with Constitution — Sans Bill of Rights
Jeff,
I would be wary of the Molon Labe Industries mags. They have been saying they are two weeks away from delivery of their first mags for about 3 months. Also, the mags are way, way longer than normal 20 round mags and the 25 rounder looks like it is ridiculous. If you dig into the FN Forum discussions, you can see the extreme dissatisfaction with Molon Labe.
I recommend watching for Thermold 20 SN SCAR mags. Much cheaper and decent reviews on the FN SCAR 17 forum. Can also modify metric FN FAL mags to work. Also watch the FN SCAR 17 forum religiously and people will give notices of factory mags on sale at normal prices but they go in a flash.
That’s a very good point. However, we know that in practice nothing will happen. Too many people just want the free stuff to keep on coming.
I was going to snark on that topic, but couldn’t come up with anything good. Luckily we have McGehee to save the day.
Crap, JayG. I guess I can just cancel my order. I was actually thinking about getting a Handl replacement lower and then using the Magpul 20s, but the lowers are on back order, as well.
That was not snark. It was sage wisdom, suitable for carving in stone or adding to a sidebar.
Sgt Stryker on the forum is making replacement lowers that handle the Magpuls, but I believe they are also on backorder. Definitely check out the Thermold SCAR 17 mag availability.
Can’t it be both?
Oh. Okay.
http://www.classicfirearms.com/scar20thermold
Now it has its own post on my teeny tiny blog.
Colorado may soon have fewer guns, but to even things out there will soon be more Mexicans!
$900 for license plates?!
Jesus H. Baldheaded Unrevised Protestant Christ!
Whatthehell is that about?
Sales tax, probably.
metaphorical little corvettes are also red, lots of times
um
also the whole planet mars and a not insignificant fraction of the global m&m population
and strawberries what spark the fateful mutinies
The non-biased press and the adult position and policy papers of the anti-gun crowd.
When you say that it is about power and not guns, you are exactly right. I’ve tried to explain that to people – if it was about guns or public safety, they’d be publicly trying to ban handguns right now and not “assault weapons” since handguns are used in a lot more crime.
The fact is, they know that banning handguns would not be popular enough right now, so they’ve got to slowly come down the ladder with each currently “extreme” weapon at a time. Right now it’s assault weapons, next it’s shotguns or handguns that can hold more than a specific amount of rounds or exceed some arbitrary power limit, etc.
Used to be that registration, taxes and tags in California was 2% of the selling price of the vehicle. Sacramento keeps your title until you are paid in full.
A bunch of law abiding people are now criminals today.
and strawberries what spark the fateful mutinies
Time to kick some politicians out on their ears. Long, hard slog ahead.
Maybe some of the CA lawfare people can help – what rollbacks we’ve had here of stupid gun laws have mainly been through the courts (some say ironically).
The sad thing is, if you are going to allow taxes and competencey testing on something that is a guaranteed Constitutional right, like bearing arms, it would seem to indicate you could do the same to something that isn’t a guaranteed Constitutional right, like voting.
But that would assume honesty and logic.
I meant to indicate it was sad because at least there would be a bit of an upside to all this horseshit. Didn’t make that clear before I hit post.