He's keepng his promises...

...and that's what scares them.

Go Nuclear

NRA Applauds Neil Gorsuch's Nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court

That endorsement s good enough for me. The problem now is the Democrats are going to filibuster this and any other nomination. If they ever get the White House back, they'll kill the filibuster for their nominees. They've already said as much. Time for the Republicans to play ball by the same rules. Give the Democrats the opportunity to extend the same courtesy the Republicans extended them on Kagan and Sotomeyer. If they flip the right the bird then...

Fight hard. Fight dirty.

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Levon's Trade by Chuck Dixon

LEvon is former spec ops. When his boss' daughter disappears he asked to look into the matter. He does and it goes downhill fro there. Excellent book. Chuck Dixon is known primarily as a writer of comic books. He wrote The Punisher, Winterworld, Batman, and a number of others. Now he is writing novels. This is a good thing. Highly recommended.

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Swarm by B. V. Larson

This is the first in Larson's Star Force series. Earth is invaded and it goes downhill from there. I liked it enough that I'll read more of his stuff, of which there is plenty, but not right now. I've just picked up a Chuck Dixon novel. Gotta read that first.

Like It Or Not

Whether you approve or disapprove of President Trump's 90-day ban on entry into the country of people from seven Muslim countries, the law give him that right.



Also here.

8 U.S. Code 1882 (f)

Scoll down a bit. It's there. 

H/T to Borepatch.

Seizure of Black Panther Weapons Invites Examination of Second Amendment Convictions

We all have the right to keep and bear arms. The truth that ought to apply equally to all of us is, if we abuse that right, if we threaten or if we cause harm through unjustified force, others have the right to stop us.

As much as I dislike the ideology of these racist a$$holes, I have to support their right to bear arms if I'm gonna be consistent in my beliefs. As long as they don't initiate force against another, they have the same right to keep and bear arms I do. They should sue.

Crocodile Tears

Senate Minority Leader Schumer Tears Up as He Vows to Fight Trump’s Ban

He's never told the truth on gun control. Why should I believe him now?

Current Events

I knew there was a reason I liked that lady

“You’re going to see a change in the way we do business,” Ms. Haley said. “Our goal with the administration is to show value at the U.N., and the way we’ll show value is to show our strength, show our voice, have the backs of our allies and make sure our allies have our back as well.”

“For those who don’t have our back,” she added, “we’re taking names; we will make points to respond to that accordingly.”

Business As Usual for Obama

Obama Issued A Massive Ammunition Ban Just One Day Before He Left Office

No lead ammunition on Federal lands. So the expense of hunting on Federal lands or using public ranges on them shoots up. This is the ban the EPA couldn't legally implement. Gun control from the flank. Business as usual for the Obama Administration. Trump can reverse this easily enough and should.

Wham!

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Deadlands: Ghostwalkers by Jonathan Maberry

Let's call it an alternative history steampunk supernatural western. How's that? I've read one of his Joe Ledger novels and liked it. I decided to take a chance on this and was pleased. It's good.

John Wick 2 Featurette

Congress to Review Obama's Social Security Gun Grab

The National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) today scored a victory when Congress agreed to review, and likely revoke, a final rule by the Obama administration that would blindly strip law-abiding Americans of their Second Amendment rights.

“Congress's decision to review the Obama administration's back-door gun grab is a significant step forward in protecting a fundamental constitutional right for law-abiding gun owners,” said Chris W. Cox, executive director, NRA-ILA. "The NRA has been fighting this unconstitutional government overreach since it was first discussed and we look forward to swift congressional action."

That's what I call a good START.

Yep

Personally, I think the MHS contest could have been as satisfactorily resolved by throwing a P320, an M&P, and a Glock 17 into a sack, spinning it around a few times, and reaching in and pulling one out. They all work fine, and if there's a less crucial weapon in modern warfare than the pistol, it probably attaches to bayonet lugs. - Tam

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The Golden Gate by Robert Buettner

I've read two of Buettner's other novels and liked them. I didn't know what to expect from this one and was pleasantly surprised. It was a nice mystery with science-fiction elements that really didn't come to light until the final chapters and turned my guesses as to where it was going upside down. More please.

New Addition

This page is from an unknown issue of DC's Earth 2. The pencils are by Tom Derenick with inks by Scott Hanna.

In Philadelphia, a Pizza Delivery Man...

...gets ambushed on a delivery and shot. He returns fire, and the cowards run. He'll be OK. They're doing laundry.

Pizza Delivery Man Shot, Returns Fire

Sign This Petition

Can't hurt.

Repeal the NFA

Wham!

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Kristen Stewart is gonna make a gun control movie,,,

...that, according to her, will "kick ass". I know. Stop laughing. Other than that, I have only to say Miss Sloane.

According to the link, this will be a short film, so few will see it anyway.

One Hundred and Sixty-Two Years Ago Today...

...John Moses Browning was born.

Well That Was Useless

Officials at most of Ohio's public and private colleges have decided the best action regarding a new state law allowing permit holders to carry a concealed firearm on campus is no action.

Senate Bill 199, signed by Gov. John Kasich on Dec. 19 lifted the blanket prohibition on firearms but only if a college's board of trustees agreed to allow concealed carry on campus.

The only way liberal academia would allow concealed carry on campus would be if it were mandated. Whoever wrote this stupid law had to know that. The only conclusion is that this result was the intention. They get to look good to gun owners at no expense to themselves. They think gun owners are stupid. Time to kick the politicians behind this to the curb and start over.

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Well, I Think It's Funny

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There's a New Sheriff in Town

Majority of 230 protesters arrested on Inauguration Day will face 10 years in prison and $25k fine as US attorney says they will be charged with felony rioting

They should have the full weight of the law fall on them as a sign to their fellow travelers that you don't get a free ride on a tantrum when you don't get your way. Truthfully, I'd be surprised if any actually get more than probation and a small fine. That they were arrested at all indicates to me a positive change.

Colion Noir: "Refuse to be Silenced"

Chicago Loses Another One

If citizens have constitutionally protected rights to own guns, authorities can't then thwart their attempts to learn how to properly use them, the 19-page opinion, issued late Wednesday, contends.

"Range training is not categorically outside the Second Amendment," Sykes wrote. "To the contrary, it lies close to the core of the individual right of armed defense."

A three-judge panel of the 7th Circuit deemed three restrictions at the heart of Chicago's ordinance unconstitutional: One that restricts public gun ranges to manufacturing areas, one that bans minors from such ranges and a third that set limits on how close ranges can be to schools, parks and places of worship.

And he's gone.

This is Cool

Directed by John McTiernan of Die Hard fame.

Mike Rowe keeps giving me reasons to like him

Mike Rowe Handled An Anti-Gun Attack With The Perfect Response

...and the public gives Obama the finger back.

Gallup: Obama Gets a Minus 9 Percent Final Grade From the Public

But its a poll so what does it matter anyway.

Current Events

President Obama flips the bird to the Military

Chelsea Manning to Be Released Early as Obama Commutes Sentence

'cuz

Doesn't it look like Obama's doing his best to burn the house down on his way out the door. 

Three more days.

In the movie Sleepless...

...the Internal Affairs cops know they are dealing with dirty cops because they used "government" bullets. Really? The Brady bunch must have advised on the film. As for the movie, nothing special about it. Wait for Redbox.

On the other hand, La La Land and Heavenly Figures are worth the time and the price of a ticket.

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1636: The Ottoman Onslaught by Eric Flint

If you haven'r read any of Eric Flint's 1632 series you need to start with the first, 1632. The ebook is free online from Baen. Starting with this book would be a waste of time. There's way too much history to plop right into this end of the story and not be lost. Other than that it is another excellent addition to the series and first by Flint alone in awhile. My only complaint is that it ends abruptly, cliffhanger, and the next book in the series is a few months out. Not much of a complaint really. I recommend the series and all it's books highly.

More on my Dad

From my earliest memory, my Dad drove a truck for Scott and Roberts Dry Cleaning. He picked up laundry and dry cleaning from customer's homes then returned it later in the week once it had been cleaned. He liked his job. He liked the people he serviced. He was working the day he died. This is a picture of the plant out of which he worked. I spent a lot of time around this place growing up. Now it contains office space. It's a historical landmark, of all things, because of the architecture. My Dad worked for Johnson-Forester Dry Cleaning before World War 2 and when he met my Mom. After the war Dad returned to that job, then switched to selling life insurance for Durham Life. I think it was sometime before I was born that he returned to the dry cleaning trade and Scott and Roberts. The only reference online I can find for Johnson-Forester is in an obituary for a former employee.

Rest in Peace

Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on the moon, dead at 82

If there are no more episodes of Sherlock...

...that last ended it well.

Heh

The Devil We Know

I'm unconvinced of the wisdom of this. Do we actually want competent Federal Law Enforcement running the show?

House Bill Would Disband Scandal-Plagued ATF

It's what they do.

Lie.

Washington Post Botched Gun Story, Asked for Help, Refused to Correct

What may very well have been a mistake becomes a lie when no correction is made once the truth is known.

Good Samaritan saves Arizona Trooper

Arizona trooper shot in ambush attack; Good Samaritan kills gunman

The Good Samaritan came up int eh incident while the assailant and trooper were struggling on the ground. The Good Samaritan ordered the assailant to stop and when he didn't went to his car, got his gun, and shot the bad guy. I think there is little doubt he saved the Trooper's life. Lucky there was a good man with a gun available to help.

H/T to Bearing Arms

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Storm Front by Robert Conroy

This is, I understand, Mr. Conroy's last novel. It is not one of his alternate history novels but a disaster novel. It's OK. It didn't grab as did his other novels. It follows his usual template. Boy meets girl and falls in love amid turmoil of history/disaster. As I said I liked it. If I had to give it a number between one and five, it would be a three and a half.

UPDATE: NOT his last. At least one more to come in June from Baen. It's co-authored by J. R. Dunn and titled The Day After Gettysburg.

Amen

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Poor Victim Selection

It's Really Not a Smart Idea to Try to Rob a Gun Store

...and stupid. Lots of stupid.

It's what she does.

Lie.

Shannon Watts Dresses Up Her Gun Control Rhetoric for Teen Vogue

...and to impressionable teens no less.

Owen Maple Smith

My Dad would have been 99 years old today had he lived. I miss him still.

Cruz Slams Democrats During Sessions Hearing

Two hundred and forty-one years ago today...

...Thomas Paine's Common Sense was published.

A Twinkie Silencer

...and it's reusable. So the cops will find some dude on the ground with a bullet hole in his forehead and white creamy filling splattered all over his face. Neat.

H/T to Uncle.

Two guys try to rob a store in Chicago...

...and the clerk wrestles their gun away from them, then shoots them. The end result is two thugs in the hospital and one clerk unharmed. Had this been almost any place other than "Gun Free" Chicago, he'd have had his own gat and wouldn't have had to borrow theirs.

SayUncle on the Fort Lauderdale Shooting

Mass shooting at Fort Lauderdale Airport

Doing the hard work for the rest of us.

Curious, isn't it?

According to the left, a six-year-old has sufficient wisdom, maturity, and insight to decide for xerself that xe is not the “gender” that corresponds to xer biological and genetic make-up and all adults are therefore obligated to accommodate the six-year-old’s chosen gender.

But when three eighteen-year-olds and a twenty-four year old kidnap a mentally challenged man and torture him for their own amusement, livestreaming the video, those same leftists are like, “Hey, you know, they’re just kids, and kids just act stupidly sometimes because they’re immature and don’t understand the consequences.”

It's what they do...

Lie.

Lies from Brady and the Gun Violence Archive: So sweet!

They are padding the numbers with crimes where no shootings occurred.

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Blade of P'Na by L. Neil Smith

The first novel by Smith I read was The Probability Broach. Since then I read almost everything he's written. This is a prequel to his Forge of the Elders which was a collection and , I guess, revision of three previous novels. I liked it. I don't get nearly enough from Smith. We get the tale of how Misterthoggosh and Eichra Oren first meet. I'm looking forward to more.

I heard on the radio...

...that there has been a mass shooting at the Fort Lauderdale Airport with several dead and wounded. I understand the shooter is in custody. That's all I intend to write about it for the moment because the usual will happen. The media will report the same bits of information incessantly 'cuz they know squat. In a couple of days we'll find that most of what they think they know will be wrong. AND the gun control crowd will dance in the blood of the victims to push their agenda like the scum they are.

The Crazy Years

Hot new trend: Self-marriage

Can't be worse than than de Blasio

Report: Clinton Mulling NYC Mayoral Run

Nothing Yesterday, Probably Nothin' Today

My back hurts. I'm tired, and emotionally drained by the, unfortunately, all to common lately, family bullshit.

If only it were that easy.

Because all those other "Celebrity" videos worked so well against Trump.

“Celebrities” beg Congress: Stand up to Trump

I'll say this for them. They don't give up easy, but isn't doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting a different result, a definition of insanity?

I should believe them now because...

Gun Control Supporters Admit Lying About Background Checks For 20+ Years

Surely, they are being truthful now. Right?

I'd love to see this nomination, if only to see heads explode.

John Ross volunteers for ATF Director position

For those who don't know, John Ross is the author of Unintended Consequences. And yes, the heads would explode.

H/T to Uncle.

RIP Father Mulcahy

‘M*A*S*H’ Star William Christopher Dies at 84

Happy New Year

.AND just because I think it's funny...