The ATF wants to perform an audit in the show-me state.  From reader Wes, the Missouri AG told the ATF to stay away from Missouri.  This is a good letter, but misses one important aspect.  More on that in a moment.

Here’s an update from Sheriff Bryan Whitney.

“As the sheriff of Scotland County, I want all my citizens to know that I will not allow, cooperate or release any CCW information to the FBI, ‘even at the threat of a federal arrest,’” Republican Scotland County Sheriff Bryan Whitney wrote to residents of his community on Monday.

“Point Blank, ‘I will go down with the ship if need be,’” the letter, which was reviewed by Fox News Digital on Tuesday, said.

Whitney said he was prompted to send the letter to his community in northeastern Missouri after he was alerted to the FBI audit set to be carried out in 24 counties in Missouri next month. It’s unclear which counties will be included in the audit.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt also demanded that the FBI “cease their attempts to illegally obtain information from local sheriffs on Missourians who have concealed carry permits,” and sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on the matter last week.

“The FBI has absolutely no business poking around in the private information of those who have obtained a concealed carry permit in Missouri,” Schmitt said, according to a press release. “The Second Amendment rights of Missourians will absolutely not be infringed on my watch. I will use the full power of my Office to stop the FBI, which has become relentlessly politicized and has virtually no credibility, from illegally prying around in the personal information of Missouri gun owners.”

Schmitt outlined to Wray that under Missouri law it is illegal to share the confidential list with the federal government. The law was passed after “it became known that the Obama Administration wanted to know which Missourians had firearms, supposedly to establish who was entitled to federal benefits.”

No, no, no, no, no, and a thousand times no.  NO!

Don’t go “down with the ship.”  Do your job and keep the ship from sinking to begin with.

Send your deputies to arrest agents of the FedGov as soon as they cross the county line and throw them in prison.  Only release them at the county line, sending them packing on their way back to whatever rock they crawled out from under.

Do the right thing, Sheriff.  Protect the citizens of your county.  This is what the AG should have said.  They will be arrested if they try to do this.

I cannot locate any email address for the Sheriff or I would send this to him for encouragement to do the right thing.

Source.

“He engaged the gunman from quite a distance with a handgun and was very proficient in that, very tactically sound,” Ison said of Dicken. “And as he moved to close in on the suspect, he was also motioning for people to exit behind him.”

Dicken fired 10 rounds from his handgun, according to the chief, and that as he fired, the gunman “attempted to retreat back into the restroom and failed, and fell to the ground after being shot.”

Concerned for his backstop, long distance shooting, ten rounds discharged quickly, and people saved.  To be more specific, Eli Dicken shot a Glock 9mm from 40 yards away, discharging ten rounds within 15 seconds, and landing 8 out of 10 rounds.

We should all be so good with our handguns.  Not many of us will ever carry a long gun around in public.  It pays to practice with your carry gun.

He should have said “I do not allow law enforcement on my property without a warrant.  I’m calling 911 now about your trespassing, and if you return, you must have a warrant.

This is just an idiotic fishing expedition.  That cop who’s with the ATF agents should be ashamed of himself.

Via The Gun Feed, this is a trap. You will end up required to have insurance and a license, just like with a car. It’s defacto registration and tracking. It’s federal gun control of concealed carry of a firearm across state lines. The operative phrase is; FEDERAL GUN CONTROL. National Reciprocity, which is what this law is, should be opposed by all freedom loving and gun owning Americans.

Republican Montana Sen. Steve Daines introduced legislation Monday that would allow for those who live in a concealed carry or Constitutional carry state to carry their concealed firearms in other states.

The legislation, first obtained by the Daily Caller, is titled the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act. The bill would ensure a Montana resident can legally conceal carry a gun into a state where the state’s own residents can conceal carry. This bill also allows for individuals with a state-issued concealed carry license to conceal a gun in any other state, as long as the permit holder follows the laws of that state.

Must we bother to state that government confers no rights whatsoever. The headline alone should be a huge warning.

Via WRSA, On The CCP Role In The Ongoing COVID Con

This story is about a bear stalking somebody that moved into the woods, which the author, the target of the bear, uses as a metaphor for facing the Covid Vaccine damage. You’ll be interested in the Covid Vaccine data. The author indicates that CCP is at war with the U.S. but is missing a known piece of the puzzle; the illness started in a lab in the U.S., making the U.S. government a combatant against its people. You should read it; the vax data is excellent, assuming it’s accurate.

But the best part is about the bear encounter.

I sped indoors, locking the door. I grabbed a weapon out of the hall closet. In my haste, I grabbed the weapon that looked like a rifle, instead of the actual rifle, which was in a case. Thus I found myself locked in an upstairs bathroom, cowering, armed with a BB gun.

[…]

I looked under the bed: hiding there could not save me if the bear made it into the house. I realized I was holding a BB gun, and felt ridiculous. Even if I managed to shoot it, this would do nothing but enrage him. The thin bedroom doors that I had thought so rustic and charming, could be broken down by an angry animal of that size in no time.

My heart pounded as I realized that he was not leaving; he continued pacing and circling, no matter where I went.

I went back into the bathroom, and locked that door with its flimsy lock.

City folk are cute.

When I called back in spite of myself and begged the police for help, they told me to call again only if he managed to break into the house.

When seconds count, the police are a third phone call away.

AP.

A bystander’s decision to shoot a man who opened fire at an Indiana mall was a rare occurrence of someone stepping in to try to prevent multiple casualties before police could arrive.

Police on Monday praised the quick actions of 22-year-old Elisjsha Dicken, an armed shopper who killed 20-year-old Jonathan Sapirman after Sapirman killed three people and wounded two others at a mall in the Indianapolis suburb of Greenwood.

“Many more people would have died last night if not for a responsible armed citizen,” police Chief Jim Ison said Monday, repeatedly calling Dicken a “good Samaritan” and his response “heroic.”

It isn’t common for mass shootings to be stopped in such fashion. From 2000 to 2021, fewer than 3% of 433 active attacks in the U.S. ended with a civilian firing back, according to the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training Center at Texas State University. The researchers define the attacks as one or more people targeting multiple people.

It was far more common for police or bystanders to subdue the attacker or for police to kill the person, according to the center’s national data, which were recently cited by The New York Times.

In a quarter of the shootings, the attacker stopped by leaving the area, similar to what happened during the July 4 parade in Highland Park, Illinois, where seven people were killed.

“There’s been this statement: ‘The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.’ That’s factually inaccurate because of the word ‘only,’” said Adam Lankford, a criminal justice expert at the University of Alabama who has written books and research papers about mass shootings.

And on and on the commentary drones.

To begin with, definitions are important.  Self defense events happen every day in America, whether at home or out and about.  I write on firearms and 2A rights, so I bypass chances to pen something else on self defense events literally every day to focus more on the mechanical and materials engineering of firearms, ammunition performance, method of carry, training, and the things that interest me.  The author has subdivided his topic as best as he can in order to make his most convincing case.  He has neglected literally thousands of cases of interest.

But even then, is he correct?  Maybe not.

UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh wrote in the Washington Post on April 20, 2015: “Have civilians with permitted concealed handguns stopped such mass shootings before?”  We provided Volokh with a list of such cases, which he used.

Below, we have collected news stories on more cases of permit holders stopping mass public shootings with their handguns (we separately collect cases where concealed handguns are used to stop other crimes).  There is no reason to believe that this list is comprehensive, given how little media coverage is devoted to these heroic acts.  In addition, we make no attempt here to list here the vast number of defensive gun uses in general that are reported daily in the US.

Permit holders stopped some mass public shootings that gained extensive news coverage, but only a few stories mentioned that it was a permit holder who stopped the attack. The stories frequently get other facts wrong.

The researchers list more than sixty times permit holders have stopped likely mass shootings in public.  I judge a few of them to be not applicable for various reasons, but that doesn’t negate the force of the copious data.

The author at AP did a lousy job of research, but then, that has become the standard for the legacy media.

To be sure, none of this has anything to do with God-given rights.  If a mass shooting can theoretically occur, and a carrier can theoretically stop it to prevent loss of life to himself or others, then it’s wise to carry and he or she certainly has the right to do so regardless of whether bogus research demonstrates that the result will be statistically insignificant.  What’s statistically insignificant to the writer is significant if you have a firearm trained on you as a potential victim.

This just all goes to show how absurd most reporting is.  Thus, unless the source is about some new firearm, some new ammunition or a ballistic test of older ammo designs for comparison, methods of maintenance, and the mechanical aspect of firearms, I’m not likely to link any legacy media source unless it’s to lampoon them or call out error.  And I won’t go behind a paywall even to do that.

That’s about all the legacy media is good for these days.  Some writer (and editor) actually thinks he’s earned his pay today for that tripe.

Via WoG

Breaking as of 8:32pm: Good Samaritan with gun credited for stopping active shooter inside Greenwood Park Mall south of Indianapolis. Police confirm 4 people dead including the shooter and two people injured. They’re being treated at Eskenazi hospital in Indy. @wrtv pic.twitter.com/wf3i0EIJfl

— Rafael Sánchez (@RafaelOnTV) July 18, 2022

There is no ethical or even remotely psychologically healthy context in which this or any LE personnel would have been laughing or smiling in Uvalde — he's in a building where children and their teachers are being murdered in real time. pic.twitter.com/1cU3SSmW0I

— Dr. Jack Brown (@DrGJackBrown) July 14, 2022

Hey, it’s only kids being murdered.  What’s not to smile about?

Home school your children.

“16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. 17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also. 18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin. 19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem. 20 And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave unto this day.” – Genesis 35:16-20

“Fear not: thou shalt have this son also.” Does it take massive brainwashing for a woman to kill her baby, or are they predisposed to be lower than an animal? Imagine a person not wanting the inconvenience of bringing a soul into the world by God’s grace; what compels a woman to kill her own child? Look at the text, Rachel was dying, in hard labor and great travail, but the midwife told her not to worry; the baby would be born. The midwife didn’t say; I’ll try to save you; she was saying, you have fulfilled the call and duty of the Almighty, fear not, depart in peace.

“Woe unto him that saith unto his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?” – Isaiah 45:10

In Isaiah 45, from verse 5 downward, God makes it very plain that He is God, we are His created handiwork, with no right to question His motives or what He brings forth. There is a higher Law! God goes so far as to state that all the offspring that parents produce are God’s creation. Who is anyone to question what God has made and brought forth by the womb?

“Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.” – Psalm 127:3

He made them, He knew them before the foundation of the world, and the Creator breathes life into every soul. There’s no reasonable way to conclude that America doesn’t deserve her destruction. Do we command God and destroy the work of His hands without recompense? He would be no God at all if that were the case.

Today society measures the courage of a woman the same way they measure a man’s; are they a cop, a soldier, a career gal? What kind of people would encourage killing their children and grandchildren in favor of women acting like men? There’s not much to say about that that hasn’t already been said. The passage in Genesis 35 recently hit like a ton of bricks; Rachel and her midwife did everything they could to bring another life into the world, and Rachel gave herself that the tribe of Benjamin might fulfill the word of God. We don’t want to call this a type of Christ, but she died that he might live; what else did Christ do, if not that very thing; die for you, that you might live? What is the pathology of killing a child inside of you?

“10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. 11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. 12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.” – Proverbs 31:10-12

And think of the Uvalde Shooting; how do 400 cops sleep at night, how do they live with themselves? How does standing by not terrorize their conscience every waking moment? America is full of mindless, heartless, soulless creatures; evil has come upon us as a nation, I fear, sure destruction is our lot; what else could God do? Is He not God!

Some young man with a devil in him starts killing children; who are to blame? It isn’t the gun; parents may play a large part, but who didn’t teach the parents? Ultimately the Church has failed by allowing evil to engulf the country. Watching the news and waiting for the rapture, that’s the American Church.

Many American Christians admit that judgment is first upon them (the house of God) and that we may have brought it as a nation. Still, they won’t realize they have a say, that taking just action against the unjust within God’s Law is allowable, even desired under the Law.

Throwing off such chains of those who would hate God is not some philosophical quip by a founding generation; it’s God’s Word. Waiting and praying for justice and deliverance from the same devils in unholy collusion with satan running America is evidence of brainwashing and further proof that American Christians may love Christ, the example servant, but they hate Christ the Lord.

Government can prosecute, enslave, imprison, kill, even crucify and bulldoze into trenches those who would tell the truth of God’s word, but none of that would change the facts at hand, that they are guilty before the throne of the Almighty God, now, right now! But admittedly, judgment is first upon the House of God for these sins.

Everybody loves the meek baby Jesus. But when Christians are asked, how does allowing mass murder of children love your neighbor, they become confused, even defiant, believers and even unbelievers alike. It is the failure of God’s men that has brought the ruin of Western Civilization.

Count it all joy that God loves us enough to destroy our nation, and then you can begin to work with God to repent, which does not mean some mealy-mouthed sorrowful prayer, although it should start with prayer. Repent means stopping what you are doing that’s against the Law of God. Once you understand that the love of Father God is why He will not abide our wickedness, then you can understand that He would be with the effort to right the wrong. There is both sin by commission, to actively participate in evil, and sin of omission, which is knowing to do good and doing it not (James 4:17).

By repentance, we seek forbearance, that He might not destroy us out of the land. God has given us a beautiful, bountiful, and various land, but the people’s hearts have turned cold, ugly, mean, and degraded. If your countrymen don’t stop, they must be made to stop, and being convinced by the totality of Scripture, would not God bless such an effort? Are 70 million babies to be rendered unto Cesar? Are they Cesar’s children or Gods? It is not the love of God or our neighbor to allow the country to persist in mass murder. And how, Heaven help us all, does it love those children to gaze upon their ongoing destruction for decades while doing nothing, the ground crying out with the blood of 70 million innocent?

All beings brought to life arrive by the creation of God. Are God’s pinnacle creation a mere commodity, or are they precious in the sight of the Lord? We know where this is headed. We see it coming all around the edges. The selling of those yet unborn, killed for their body parts, for “research”? And the prior attempts to take Stem Cells all very clinically, scientifically, and sterile in a laboratory environment, but we all know where this leads.

First, do no harm? Is it any wonder the medical industrial complex has turned to sick care, keeping people ill for profit? What kind of sin is this when it’s proclaimed in the name of Science? Science is the observation of God’s creation or His created order. When a people make Science their god, any abomination in the name of Science is called some common good. The mass murder by a vaccine is only a “logical” step in this self-destructive chain. Wholesale slaughter must be en route. It’s what the evil in men excels at when wickedness is allowed to reign unchecked. If not for God’s hand, the whole world would turn to violence as before the flood.

Holy God permits that evil necessary to teach those He loves that He is God, right is right, and wrong is wrong. He is God; He defines these terms and makes the outcome His handiwork of human history. Lord help us; we’re in trouble. When you’re in trouble with God, only God can save you.

Since Roe has been overturned, has a single State Governor called for legislation to outlaw abortion in that State?