Dean Weingarten has a good find at Ammoland.
Judge Eduardo Ramos, the U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York, has issued an Opinion & Order that a ban on stun guns is constitutional. A New York State law prohibits the private possession of stun guns and tasers; a New York City law prohibits the possession and selling of stun guns. Judge Ramos has ruled these laws do not infringe on rights protected by the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.
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This is interesting, and from what I see, he is advocating a sort of admixture of forward aggressive and modified Weaver. I’ll have to try it to see what I think because I lean forward more than he recommends.
See the picture here. As you know, the Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization who promotes evil things like Jihad against Christians, forcible Sharia law and female circumcision.
So ask yourself if you own a Twitter account. Why? Why would anyone in their right mind own an account at such an outfit as that. Technically I do to promote my own posts, but it is inactive. I had thought about making a number of posts to see if I can get banned, like “Twitter sucks,” “Twitter aligns with Muslim terrorists,” Twitter promotes female circumcision,” and so on. But I won’t waste my time on them. They’re going down the tubes anyway.
If you’re connected, disconnect immediately. You don’t want to be on the ship when it goes down. If not, then good. I don’t have a Facebook account either because they suck.
President-elect Donald Trump is considering several retired military generals as possible picks to be secretary of defense, people knowledgeable about the transition process said.
Retired Marine Gen. James Mattis, a former war commander who has long voiced concerns about the security threat posed by Iran, is among those being considered. Gen. Mattis is expected to visit with Mr. Trump in New Jersey, transition officials said Friday.
Also under consideration is retired Army Gen. David Petraeus, a former commander of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Army Gen. Jack Keane, who has been advising the campaign, also has been in discussions and met with the president-elect on Thursday, transition officials said.
Donald, please stop listening to Jack Keane, and choose Mattis. Please don’t put David Petraeus in that chair. You’ll regret it if you do.
The only thing better than having Mattis would be for him to go to Washington, make Ashton Carter pull his pants down in front of the Pentagon, and whip him with a belt until he sobs. Do it because he deserves it for trying to force women into SpecOps, and for trying to force women through the Marine Corps infantry officer school at Quantico (all of them so far have ended up with pelvic fractures or breaks), and for focusing defense dollars on sensitivity training and coming out parties at the Pentagon.
When Nabanita De scrolled through her Facebook feed recently, she felt afraid. There were so many posts with competing information and accusations about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton that she didn’t know how to begin deciphering the fearmongering from the reality.
The social media site has faced criticism since the presidential election for its role in disseminating fake and misleading stories that are indistinguishable from real news. Because Facebook’s algorithm is designed to determine what its individual users want to see, people often see only that which validates their existing beliefs regardless of whether the information being shared is true.
So when De, an international second-year master’s student at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, attended a hackathon at Princeton University this week with a simple prompt to develop a technology project in 36 hours, she suggested to her three teammates that they try to build an algorithm that authenticates what is real and what is fake on Facebook.
And they were able to do it.
De, with Anant Goel, a freshman at Purdue University, and Mark Craft and Qinglin Chen, sophomores at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, built a Chrome browser extension that tags links in Facebook feeds as verified or not verified by taking into account factors such as the source’s credibility and cross-checking the content with other news stories. Where a post appears to be false, the plug-in will provide a summary of more credible information on the topic online.
They’ve called it FiB.
Since the students developed it in only a day and a half (and have classes and schoolwork to worry about), they’ve released it as an “open-source project,” asking anyone with development experience to help them improve it. The plugin is available for download to the public, but the demand was so great that their limited operation couldn’t handle it.
So you’ve learned absolutely nothing from this “article.” Perhaps it ought to be relegated to the bin of fake news. Consider for a moment what you’ve witnessed over the last several days. Reporters are sitting in the bottom of Trump tower watching to see who enters the building and goes up the elevator. For hours, and hours, and hours. Perhaps they could liven it up a bit and add spice to this “news” by telling us the favorite colors of the folks riding the elevator.
What you’re witnessing is the result of the death of investigative reporting. For the “reporters” and news “editors” out there, why don’t you go to Iraq and do some reporting on what the Muslims have done to the Christian church in Mesopotamia? Oh, I see. That might involve going to Mosul. Does that frighten you? Are you scared? It should, and you should be.
Or why don’t you travel to Haiti to investigate why a budding anthropologist headed there to study the child kidnapping and pedophilia ring born out of Haiti and its relationship to the Clinton foundation, only to turn up dead under suspicious circumstances? Is that scary to you? Bless your heart.
Or why don’t you investigate why a pizzeria in Washington. D.C., owned by James Alefantis, called Comet Ping Pong, and associated with the Podesta brothers, advertised as “family friendly,” has drag shows? Or why don’t you investigate what Wikileaks shows about the relationship between the Clinton Foundation and its corollary of massive corruption? Is that scary to you? Are you afraid you’ll end up like Seth Rich?
Yea, I would be too. That’s why I carry guns. But you progressives don’t believe in those things, so there’s that.
Look, for those who haven’t learned this yet, there is no news being reported by the MSM any more. All investigative journalism is being done by 4Chan and Reddit. It is a dead art within the MSM. If you aren’t studying the results of the analysis at Reddit, you don’t know anything about the news. For the MSM to try to tell us anything about fake news is pathetic.
As for what Wikileaks tells us, they only release raw data. Others do the analysis. Wikileaks has been proven accurate and above reproach for a decade. If you’re going to try to tell us that Wikileaks is not real, you’re calling black white and white black. You’re embarrassing yourself, and you’re possibly too stupid to know it.
In summary, I can’t say it better than Paul Joseph Watson.
Owners of Remington’s popular Model 700 rifle can now examine for themselves literally millions of pages of internal company documents that have led critics to conclude that the guns are unsafe.
The documents — more than 130,000 files in all — have been assembled in a searchable online database by the advocacy group Public Justice. The organization, which battles against secrecy in the courts, fought successfully last year to make the documents public.
“These documents show the extreme danger of court secrecy,” said Public Justice Chairman Arthur Bryant. “They prove that court secrecy kills. Literally.”
With millions sold since the design first went on the market in the 1940s, Remington claims its Model 700 is the best-selling bolt-action rifle ever made. But lawsuits have alleged that for decades the company covered up a deadly design flaw that allows the guns to fire without the trigger being pulled, resulting in dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries. The company has denied the allegations.
The documents show Remington engineers wrestling with what they called a “very dangerous” situation as early as 1947 — before the guns went on sale. Company officials eventually decided that a design change was not worth the added cost, a conclusion they would reach again and again.
We’ve discussed this at length before. While shooters are responsible for following all of the rules of safety, firearms manufacturers are responsible for designing and producing firearms that don’t discharge a round when the trigger isn’t being pulled. It’s called “defense in depth.”
Take a look at the incredible cache of documents there. It’s staggering. As I’ve said before to firearms manufacturers, when you find problems you’d better admit them and get out in front of the problem, recall it, announce it, and fix it.
Engineers, don’t ever sacrifice your ethical integrity at the behest of corporate lawyers. You say, “But this pertains to my career and this is a very difficult decision to make, and it could affect my ability to support my family.” Yes it does, and yes it may.
That’s why it’s call ethics. It isn’t ethics when it’s easy. Been there, done that. I know what it’s like.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the House Select Committee on Intelligence Thursday he had submitted his letter of resignation on Wednesday night.
“(I) submitted my letter of resignation last night, which felt pretty good,” he said before the panel of lawmakers, in response to the top Democrat on the panel joking he hoped he would stick around for another four years.
“I have 64 days left and I’d have a pretty hard time with my wife going past that,” Clapper told California Rep. Adam Schiff, who also paid his respects to Clapper’s service as the hearing opened.
Well then, let me pay my very own respects. Good riddance, you disgusting worm. You almost certainly knew all about this, and you did and said nothing. And you almost certainly knew all about this, and you did and said absolutely nothing.
I hope you sit in your retirement and ponder working for an evil monster like Obama, and I hope you ponder your own moral failings for a very long time.
Veteran suffering from PTSD calls suicide hotline, admits to gun ownership, but repeatedly explains he doesn’t have a weapon at the ready. His interlocutor calls D.C. police anyway, who send in SWAT. He surrenders. Police search his home, see nothing concerning in plain view. Hours later, they re-enter, rip the place apart — and (allegedly) leave the stove on and the front door unlocked for two weeks while he’s in jail. D.C. Circuit: The second search violated the Fourth Amendment.
Well, what the hell else did you expect to happen? The cops were involved.
Police say an Iowa man had stabbed two people repeatedly last month before a man pulled a gun and ordered the attacker to get on the ground.
Adam Scott Jacobsen, 28, stabbed Jeffrey Miller 24 times and Denice Bennett eight times at an apartment complex before Daniel Williams drew his firearm, according to police. “He pulled the gun and ordered him to lie on the ground,” said Cedar Falls Police Chief Jeff Olson. He said Jacobsen stayed on the ground until police got there, and that Williams holstered his gun before police arrived.
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Authorities say the man with the gun, Daniel Williams, had a permit to carry. Police wouldn’t say whether they believed Jacobsen would have continued stabbing people without Williams’s intervention.
That last paragraph is only there in the article because some idiot reporter wanted to know if use of a gun was really, truly, absolutely, really, really necessary, or if perhaps Williams could have de-escalated the situation without even unholstering the gun. You know that’s what happened. Or some idiot reporter wants to know if perchance the situation would have ended peacefully if a gun had never been present.
Two men and a woman have been arrested after grandmother with a gun thwarted an attempted burglary at her home in Coweta County, Ga., according to deputies.
“I don’t know why they selected that house, but they picked the wrong one,” Colonel James Yarbrough from the Coweta County Sheriff’s Office said.
According to a report, Elaine Stiehl, 78, was getting ready to take a nap when she heard a noise coming from inside her home on Mount Carmel Road around 3 p.m. Friday. Stiehl loaded her gun, opened her bedroom door and saw two men standing in her hallway, the report said.
Officials said the men were in the process of stealing furs and tools from the home, but after seeing Stiehl’s gun, the men reportedly ran out of the residence and fled in a car.
“Neighbors were able to give us a description of the vehicle we pulled it over and took the subjects into custody,” Yarbrough said.
Impossible, ridiculous, absurd and preposterous. We all know that a gun is no protection from crime, and that if anyone other than a LEO uses one, it takes on a life of its own and spins wildly, shooting innocent people at random.
With the possible removal of silencers/suppressors from National Firearms Act control, a number of legal questions around the devices emerge.
The current mechanism for change, H.R.3799 — the Hearing Protection Act — is stuck in the U.S. House but would likely see a stronger reboot in the next Congress in 2017. If a new bill gains enough momentum to make it through Capitol Hill and onto the waiting desk of President Trump, it would leave a few things undecided if signed into law with its current language.
Today, some 42 states have legalized suppressor ownership for civilians, several within just the past few years. As the HPA simply removes the items from the purview of the NFA, the states that ban them now can continue to ban them into the future. On the other hand, states that currently allow ownership could move to restrict it should the items no longer be shackled with requirements for tax stamps, registration and extensive waiting periods caused by paperwork.
“It’s no different than the states that prohibit the sale of machine guns or even certain Title I firearms,” Adam Kraut, an attorney specializing in Second Amendment rights with the Firearms Industry Consulting Group, told Guns.com.
While on the outset this fact would seem to hurt the legislation, it largely removes much of the steam from anti-gun lawmakers hailing from states that currently ban suppressors such as California and Illinois …
Oh, I would never underestimate the ability of collectivists to control everything. Visit Guns.com and read the rest of the article, which is an interesting analysis of other questions, such as what happens to the current registry of suppressors if the law were to pass?
This is all well and good, and I hope we see progress on this front. I mainly hope that not because of the hearing protection such devices provide (since one can currently wear hearing protection when shooting), but mainly because wearing such devices inhibits proper man-machine interface. For example, do you find it rather difficult to get a good cheek weld on your rifle if you’re wearing muffs? Or another way of asking it is this. Do you find that you are modifying the way you would do things naturally because you are wearing muffs?
Again, this is all well and good. But what about my SBR? I want to see SBRs removed from the NFA list. Are you listening? I want SBRs removed from the NFA list. You didn’t hear it that time either? Okay. I WANT SBRs REMOVED FROM THE NFA LIST!!!!!
