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One of These Things is Not Like the Other and Kodak Black’s Attorney Notices the Difference
Rapper Kodak Black’s lawyer suggested there are “two tiers of justice” on Tuesday after Hunter Biden received no prison time and no felony convictions for the same federal weapons crime that stuck the rapper with a sentence of three years in federal prison.
“Kodak was charged for the same crime. Got over 3 years,” Bradford Cohen, a Florida-based criminal attorney, wrote in an Instagram post. “Mr. Biden will not serve a day.
Gun Meme of the Day: Public Lands Edition
A great shooting area on national forest land that I used to use regularly was closed down a couple years ago because of this. People were shooting and leaving so much trash out there that refrigerant, oil, coolant, and other toxins were getting into a creek near the range and ending up in a nearby lake. Don’t suck. Pack it in, pack it out, etc etc.
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Rep Rashida Tlaib Seeks to Mandate Firearm Dealers Attempt to Sell a Lock With Every Gun
From the department of redundant redundancy departments comes “The Squad” backbencher, Congressnon-man Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), pushing legislation that would force gun dealers to have locks available for every firearm they sell. Not included with the firearm, mind you, just available for sale and the store must also offer said lock or safe storage device at the time of the gun purchase.
Apparently she’s unaware that all handguns sold in the U.S. already must come with a secure gun storage or safety device, which is usually in the form of a cable lock.
Father’s Day Story: North Carolina Man Shoots Attacker to Protect His Daughter
It won’t surprise you that most parents have a strong protective instinct when it comes to their kids. Nothing brings out the mama or papa bear instinct like messing with their cubs. On Father’s day, a 23-year-old man learned that fact of life the hard way. He reportedly accosted an 11-year-old girl in her own backyard in Wilson’s Mills, North Carolina. His problems began when the girl’s siblings ran inside and told mom and dad.
No Matter How Senile He May Be, Joe Biden Is a Never-Ending Fount of Anti-Gun Lies
President Joe Biden’s first presidential speechwriter jumped ship after one year and the gun control lies didn’t stop. Media outlets finally began fact-checking the president’s repeated false claims even as he continued reciting them. The truth demonstrates he’s clearly wrong, yet here we are again. The more things change the more they stay the same.
President Biden has a problem lying about gun control and the firearm industry.
Third Circuit Court of Appeals Stays Portion of New Jersey Carry-Killer Injunction
We’ve been covering closely the shenanigans in New Jersey concerning carry. Just the other day, I made the prediction that gun owners will be victorious in the long run, and I stand by that. As fate would have it, the preliminary injunction that we covered a few weeks ago has had a partial stay placed on it by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. While this is a blow, it’s not the end of the world for Garden State gun owners.
Chesterton’s Fence, or Why Gun Control Bulldozes the Needs (and Rights) of the Average Person
Back in 1929, in The Thing: Why I Am a Catholic, G.K. Chesterton introduced a decision-making principle that came to be known as Chesterton’s fence:
In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road.
Gun Meme of the Day: Not Wrong Edition
I mean…I’m on board.
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Veterans, Guns & Cigars – Networking and Competition Shooting Events for Vets and Everyone Else
We cover events like SHOT Show, NRAAM, SIG Freedom Days, and similar gatherings, but the recent Veterans, Guns, & Cigars event isn’t your typical firearm trade show. As the name implies, it’s aimed at military veterans and active duty servicemen and women. That said, anyone can attend. The events are put together by a husband and wife team through a military veteran networking organization called Meritorious.
The goal of the event is to bring veterans together and offer them networking opportunities while also having a bit of ballistic fun.
A Quick Gun Review: Ruger Mark IV Silencer Shop Host (the SSH)
As we’ve reviewed no shortage of Ruger Mark-series guns, including the Mark IV 22/45 Lite, Mark IV Target, Mark IV 22/45 Bull Barrel and more, this won’t be an in-depth gun review. The SSH, or Silencer Shop Host, is the same Ruger Mark IV 22/45 that you know and love. But with a twist.
It sports the shortest Mark-series pistol barrel ever to leave Ruger’s factory at just 3 inches in length.
2A Hunters Coalition Urge House Leadership Take Action On Pistol Brace Ban
An open letter from Gun Owners of America to key senators and congressmen follows . . .
Dear Speaker McCarthy, Minority Leader Jefferies, Majority Leader Schumer, and Minority Leader McConnell,
We the undersigned sportsmen, sportswomen, and conservation leaders write to you today on behalf of the owners of up to 40,000,000 stabilizing braced pistols. These braced pistols are especially important in allowing elderly and/or disabled sportsmen and sportswomen to participate in the American hunting tradition.
Surprising No One, the President’s Junkie Son Gets a Sweetheart Deal for His Tax, Gun Law Violations
By Lee Williams
The Biden Family’s infamous dual standard of justice was on full display this morning when Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss disclosed the details of Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal. Weiss had been investigating allegations of tax and firearm violations involving the president’s son for more than five years.
Biden the younger will plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges after failing to pay federal income tax in 2017 and 2018 — he owed more than $1 million in back taxes.
Gun Meme of the Day: Scratch and Sniff Edition
So proud that our president isn’t a weird creeper who sniffs hair and gropes girls and women in public or anything.
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Gottlieb: Hunter Biden Gun Charge Deal an Outrage, Insult
From Alan Gottlieb, Chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) . . .
CCRKBA: HUNTER BIDEN GUN CHARGE DEAL AN OUTRAGE, INSULT
BELLEVUE, WA – Tuesday’s announced “tentative deal” to resolve a federal gun law violation involving Hunter Biden—son of anti-gun-rights President Joe Biden—is “an insult to the intelligence of the American people,” the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said in response.
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Big June Sale from Liberty Safe or: Here’s a Way for Me to Show Off My Lounge Room
Scrolling Instagram, an ad for Liberty Safe‘s big June sale appeared. 10 percent off site-wide plus 18-month interest-free financing. I figured, heck, I’m nearing completion of an entire room more or less built around my own Liberty Safe, so I may as well inform y’all that there’s 10 days left to jump on this sale and simultaneously show off the state of the room and of my safe thus far.
Let me just head off some questions and state that this isn’t an affiliate post or anything.
Federal Ammunition Introduces New Premium ELD-X Hunting Loads
Extremely low drag (high ballistic coefficient) projectiles designed with terminal ballistics (efficacy on game animals) in mind. This is the way. In this case Federal Ammunition and Hornady are playing nice together, resulting in Federal Premium ammunition featuring Hornady ELD-X projectiles.
What this means to me is extremely precisely-loaded ammunition in top quality brass with top quality primers firing some of the best bullets available. I can’t wait to try it out.
Federal’s press release follows .
Canadians Select the SIG SAUER P320 as the Sidearm for Their Armed Forces
Another western nation has adopted the SIG SAUER P320 as the official sidearm of its armed forces. Our neighbors to the north have christened the modular P320 as the C22 and have chosen it to replace John Moses Browning’s venerable Hi-Power 9mm that the Canucks have been carrying since World War II.
Here’s SIG’s announcement . . .
SIG SAUER, Inc. is pleased to announce that the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) has officially transitioned to the SIG SAUER P320 and received the official designation of C22.
Father’s Day/Juneteenth Holiday Weekend So Far: 11 Homicides, 53 More Wounded in Chicago
Father’s Day marks the day Americans celebrate their paternal units. In the tourist attraction known as Chicago, it seems as though gang members prefer to celebrate the Father’s Day weekend with gunfire directed at their fellow Americans rather than having a peaceful dinner and gifts of ties and Old Spice to dear old dad.
As Father’s Day leads into the Juneteenth federal holiday Monday, the body count of Chicago’s new Mayor Brandon “Big Brain” Johnson’s continues to climb.
Anderson Mfg Announces the New AM-15 Dissipator
When we were at the Primary Arms range day before NRA in Indy earlier this year, Jeremy got a chance to shoot Anderson Manufacturing’s new AM-15 Dissipator rifle. It’s an updated 5.56 take on the classic Vietnam era M16 with a 16-inch barrel and a Magpul flip-up rear iron sight among other updates. Here’s Anderson’s press release . . .
Anderson Manufacturing has launched their AM-15 Dissipator, a modernized take on an iconic, Vietnam-era rifle.
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23 Shot, 1 Killed, No Arrests in Willowbrook, IL Juneteenth Party Shootout
Two hundred plus youths held an impromptu parking lot party in Willowbrook, Illinois this past weekend, ostensibly to celebrate the Juneteenth holiday. It all came to a screeching halt shortly after midnight when a vehicle rolled up and one or more persons emerged and began firing into the crowd. In the end, news reports say as many as 23 were shot, one was killed and police have zero suspects in custody.
Police apparently expected trouble.