It's good to be a Mandarin in America these days. Mandarins are the class of people who have the largest megaphones, who get to lecture the rest of us about how evil we are for clinging to guns and Gawd, but who can break laws publicly and with impunity.
But as I have read firearms laws, Stephanie Soechtig wasn't the one who violated federal firearms laws, nor did the seller, whoever it was, who transferred the firearm to Stephanie Soechtig's employee, nor did the individual who received the firearm. Since it was a private sale, firearms laws were not violated until the moment the guns were taken across state lines.
Davis argues that moving the firearm across state lines without a background check puts Soechtig in legal jeopardy, but it is only the act of moving the firearm across state lines that puts her employee, not Soechtig, in a jackpot. Stephanie Soechtig's employee committed no crime until the moment firearm was moved across state lines. The crime was not for the purchase.
I hate when people like Davis point out incidents like this in this manner. Federal firearms laws, federal laws and the monstrously growing federal government are not the issue to Davis. That Soechtig violated unjust firearms law is.
Davis should quit the Federalist. He is a statist, not a Constitutionalist.
I think Soechtig should be congratulated for making the transfer in defiance of firearms laws. I know for a fact that Soechtig will skate, as will Couric and her co-conspirators. Call it the David Gregory standard of justice. If you ain't one of them, then you go to prison.
And no one will die in the snows of Oregon for their role in the conspiracy to violate firearms laws. No ambushes, no need to cover your crimes with state legislation.
Let's face it. Whether you wear a badge, a black robe, make your living in front of a microphone or a keyboard, it is good to be a Mandarin in the USA.
Loads.
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Prices for pistol ammunition were mixed. Prices for rifle ammunition were steady.
Prices for used pistols were mixed on the low side. Prices for used rifles were mixed.
New Lows:
None
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: -.02 After Unchanged (10 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bud's Gun Shop, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo Mart, Store Brand, RN, Brass Cased, Reloads, .22 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 After Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bud's Gun Shop, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Cased, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo Mart, Store Brand, RSFP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .19 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Bud's Gun Shop, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .16 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Rush Creek Ammo, Store brand, TMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .16 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (1Q, 2016))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: +.02 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Selway Armory, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Ammunition to Go, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel cased, .24 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (10 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Goose Island Sales, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .21 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Cheaper Than Dirt!, Tulammo, FMJ, steel casing, .21 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: LAX Ammunition, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .35 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: J&G Sales, Tulammo, Steel Casing, FMJ, .34 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (11 Weeks))
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Munire USA, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .24 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: TrueCaliber.com, Wolf WPA, Steel Case, FMJ, .22 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds (10 Box Limit): Ammomen, Aguila, RNL, .07 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Ammo Fast, Aguila, RNL, .07 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks))
[PJ Media] It’s zombie time at campaign Hillary. Behold the dead men walking! It was with strangely slow, narcotized numbness that the candidate and her phalanx of minions and mouthpieces responded to last week’s punishing report by the State Department’s Inspector General about her email security lapses. Do they truly believe, in the rosy alternate universe of Hillaryland, that they can lie their way out of this? Of course, they’re relying as usual on the increasingly restive mainstream media to do their dirty work for them. If it were a Republican in the crosshairs, Hillary’s shocking refusal to meet with the Inspector General (who interviewed all four of the other living Secretaries of State of the past two decades) would have been the lead item flagged in screaming headlines from coast to coast. Let’s face it--the genuinely innocent do not do pretzel twists like this to cover their asses.
There are fewer sharper critics of the American politico-cultural scene than Camille Paglia; that she generally comes to the wrong conclusions with her heart (she's a Sanders supporter), her head does formidable work nailing the candidates's strengths and weaknesses.
She's right about Hillary, of course. Mrs. Clinton is the worst, and least-qualified, major party candidate in eons: a career criminal whose flouting of the law and nose-thumbing at the American people are finally coming to the ignominious end she so richly deserves. And -- equal time! -- she's also spot-on regarding Donald Trump:
[Gateway Pundit] Activists around the world have long turned to Angela Davis for scholarly guidance when discussing systems of oppression and power.
This week in New York, the radical feminist activist issued a rallying cry to Americans: to avoid a Donald Trump presidency, "we have to do whatever is necessary."
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Davis became a household name in 1969 when she was removed from her teaching post at the University of California Los Angeles for social justice work and her affiliation with the Communist Party. She made the F.B.I.’s Ten Most Wanted list on false charges soon after, starting the 1970s with a 16-month incarceration and trial that sparked an international campaign when the world demanded that the United States government "Free Angela Davis."
Former California Governor Ronald Reagan swore then that the philosophy professor would never teach in the University of California system again.
Nine books and four decades later, a vocal Davis is now Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness at U.C. Santa Cruz ‐ an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program the likes of which are only possible because of the radical scholarship she laid as groundwork.
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With her history I have to believe 'whatever is necessary' is a call for assassination. For any other candidate that would result in serious discussion with the Secret Service and/or FBI, but probably not for Trump.
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She reminds me of the bad and insane times in my time at UC Berkeley. The rot of the left is so malignant.
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Nine books and four decades later, a vocal Davis is now Distinguished Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness at U.C. Santa Cruz ‐ an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program the likes of which are only possible because of the radical scholarship she laid as groundwork.
And you thought Trump University was bad.
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Fought for Marxism, Communism, + Secularism in the US, but instead may get Islam iff the Hard Boyz can't be defeated.
[DAWN] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf ...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations.... (PTI) front man Naeemul Haque on Thursday defended his stance over calling Afghan Death Eater Mullah Mansour a 'martyr', who was killed in a dronezap in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... last week.
"Fighting to liberate your homeland is a just cause," Naeem told Dawn.com, a day after he spoke on a TV show and called the head of an outlawed group a 'martyr'.
This should also mean that Mr Haque finds the violence associated with the group equally liberating and just?
Also, exactly how is it any less liberating and just than the one related to similar groups within Pakistain. Groups which are now locked in a mortal tussle with the military and the government of Pakistain.
Men such as Mr Haque and many like him really can't be expected to think about such issues beyond the stuff which can only gain them an instant headline or two.
On the other hand, many other more thoughtful men and women have wondered what makes a perfectly normal looking person take a life (or lives) and sometimes his own; secure in a rather convoluted knowledge that his act is sure to place him in the good books of the Almighty or find him pleasurably loitering in the gardens of paradise.
Sociologists, psychologists and political scientists have all often come up with various explanations. Some suggest that bad economics is to be blamed for young people to become desperate enough to be exploited by the violent patrons of faith and go on a killing spree for money as well as God.
But then, there are also those who remind us that if it was all about economics, how would one explain acts of faith-driven terror undertaken by young men and women from well-to-do middle-class families?
Faisal Shahzad, Omar Saeed Sheikh, the 7/7 bombers in the UK, the men behind the gruesome Safoora Goth massacre -- all of these came from educated, urban and middle-class families.
In such cases, it is believed that the mad urge to kill in the name of faith transcends political and economic compulsions and becomes a sheer act of criminal psychosis.
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[Townhall] Conservatives care about logic. Liberals care about emotion. Conservatives care about whether a program works or not. Liberals care about how supporting a program makes them feel. Conservatives take the positions they do because they believe they’re best for society. Liberals take the positions they do because they make them feel and look compassionate or superior to hold those positions.
Once you understand those basics, it's very easy to see why both sides hold the positions they do on most issues and to comprehend why there’s so little middle ground. Once you get the mentalities, you can predict where each side will come down on issues.
An extremely expensive program designed to help disadvantaged minority children read better that has been proven not to work? Liberals will support it and conservatives will oppose.
A program that cuts the deficit by cutting people off the welfare and disability rolls who don't belong there in the first place? Conservatives will support it and liberals will oppose.
A program called "Puppies for Orphans" that hands out "therapy dogs" to poor children at $100,000 per year in cost? Liberals will support it and conservatives will oppose.
The problem with all of this is that most of what passes for "compassion" with liberals isn't real compassion. There's a cost to real compassion and thus, a limit to it.
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I can't help but think of the 'if you see something say something' chestnut. After 70 + years of celebrating, championing, elevating and saluting every form of socially deviant behavior heretofore known to Man, what exactly do they intend you say to who? That is without being hounded by rabid SJW's.
First of calling Liberal people that are the contrary of it.
If you can't understand the enemy, and that starts by naming it correctly you can't defeat them.
Second the Marxist Left cares nothing about racism, homon, trans, and it has nothing to do with "emotion"
It has to do with Power.
They are just tools at hand to desconstruct society values. Cultural change.
Change the culture to take power. Is that simple, does not matter for what culture is that change. Change is enough.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Gateway Pundit] Activists around the world have long turned to Angela Davis for scholarly guidance when discussing systems of oppression and power.
[Townhall] Conservatives care about logic. Liberals care about emotion. Conservatives care about whether a program works or not. Liberals care about how supporting a program makes them feel. Conservatives take the positions they do because they believe they’re best for society. Liberals take the positions they do because they make them feel and look compassionate or superior to hold those positions.
