I was completely stunned a few days ago when Trump stated in a roomful of congressional politicians that he would prefer to see guns seized first, then due process second.As Senator Rand Paul noted in a tweet, due process comes first, or it is not due process. What was being discussed was the efficacy of laws that allow government officials to seize guns if a defendant is deemed a danger to society. Whether you agree with Trump or not, what he is talking about is preventative action by the state against its own American citizens, which would make Trump and the politicians who sign off on it tyrants in a very real sense of the word.
Were gun control laws to get to that point -- wait a minute, California already allows guns to be seized based on an ex parte order, so disregard. We are already there. The laws and variations of preventative seizure are being seriously considered because it will be applied only to the mentally ill, they say. In other words, only to those the state says are crazy. All of which must be a very small subset of all people, especially a class you don't normally appeal to for votes.
I mean, they promise it will be Constitutional, and you won't be affected just as long as you go along. Everyone wants to save the children, right? You're crazy if you don't.
This disease among supporters of gun control in public forums is insanely intense. Having what I thought was a nice exchange of ideas with others on gun control, trying to educate the Kommies on how the Constitution is supposed to restrict the government not the people, a (I assumed) young man became irritated when I used the term Kulak in reference to how liberals treat members of the NRA.
Not only did the comparison fly completely over the head of this individual, he said it was a racist term. Then, he continued by saying that I am a troll in the pay of the Kremlin and everything I say should be ignored. I figured at that point the conversion stopped being a conversation and started to be the rantings of a Soviet Kommissar, so I decided to stop following the thread. Good idea, right?
The fella continued to denounce me on my Facebook wall as being in league with Volodya, but he finally stopped after I responded to his rantings with: Неправда, но продолжайте: "Not true, but do go on."
Sheesh, this and Volodya is a deadbeat. I haven't been paid by the Kremlin in forever.
The punchline to all this is that the individual who continually hammered away on the Russian troll thing wasn't young at all, but appeared by his profile pic to be in his late 40s.
You'd think that after 40 to 50 years alive in the USA, you'd know maybe a little about the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution and firearms. But then I remember, there's Kuntzman.
Loads
Rantburg's summary for arms and ammunition:
Pistol ammunition prices were mixed. Rifle ammunition prices were mostly steady.
Prices for used pistols were mixed. Prices for used rifles were higher.
A week and a half after the massacre at Florida, used firearms made a small rise in average price. Even the AR-15, which had been dwelling in the mid $400s has risen. At the moment these increases in asking price for used rifles are only in the initial stage, but another item in assessing the price levels of firearms has become apparent.
Last August I remarked about how the used firearm market had been flooded with used firearms.
Now, six months later, in nearly every category I follow, the number of available firearms for sale has dropped, some classes halved in quantity. As I remarked last week, the general prices of pistols has been rising steadily, with some pistols going for well above the average high I have been tracking since the start of this column. Whatever condition in the market has changed, it has changed for all categories of firearms.
New Lows:
None
Pistol Ammunition
.45 Caliber, 230 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4 weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Red River Reloading, Silver Bear, FMJ, Steel Casing, .22 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: East Carolina Trading, Own brand, FMJ, Brass Casing, Reloads, .20 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (7 Weeks))
.40 Caliber Smith & Wesson, 180 Grain, From Last Week: -.01 Each After Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Expert Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing .19 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: East Carolina Trading, Own Brand, CRN, Brass Casing, Reloads, .17 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2017))
9mm Parabellum, 115 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Expert Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing .14 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Expert Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing .13 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks))
.357 Magnum, 158 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 1,000 rounds: Lucky Gunner, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .24 per round (From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (3Q, 2017))
.38 Special, 158 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Vizards Gun and Ammo, Prvi Partizan, RNL, Brass Casing .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk: 500 rounds: Ammo Valley, Own brand, FP, Brass Casing, Reloads, .24 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Rifle Ammunition
.223 Caliber/5.56mm 55 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (4Q, 2017)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Able's, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .20 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: Expert Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .19 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.308 NATO 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Expert Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .30 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Expert Ammo, Tulammo, FMJ, Steel Casing, .28 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
7.62x39mm AK 123 Grain, From Last Week: +.01 Each After Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Classic Firearms, Wolf WPA, FMJ, Steel Casing, .23 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 1,000 rounds: True Shot Gun Club, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .19 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (3Q, 2017))
.30-06 Springfield 145 Grain, From Last Week: -.06 Each After Unchanged (4 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .54 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: United Nations Ammo, Wolf WPA, Steel Casing, FMJ, .53 per round (From Last week: Unchanged (4Q, 2017))
.300 Winchester Magnum 150 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (3 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Selway Armory, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .75 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 500 rounds: Expert Ammo, Prvi Partizan, Brass Casing, SP, .70 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
.338 Lapua Magnum 250 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (8 Weeks)
Cheapest, 20 rounds: Outdoor Limited, Ten Ring, Brass Casing, SP, 2.15 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 320 rounds: Ammo Board, Ten Ring, Brass Casing, FBSP, 2.25 per round (From Last Week: -.55 After Unchanged (1Q, 2018))
.22 LR 40 Grain, From Last Week: Unchanged (5 Weeks)
Cheapest, 50 rounds: Ammo King, Federal, RNL, .04 per round
Cheapest Bulk, 5,000 rounds: Expert Ammo, Aguila, RNL, .03 per round (From Last Week: Unchanged (2 Weeks))
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“Here’s a thought,” Kuntzman tweeted four days after his axing. “Next time you fire an award-winning editor who built a career over 30 years, who clocks in an hour before you and clocks out an hour after you, and has two kids who need to eat, how about looking him in the eye when you do it rather than sacking him by phone?”
they didn't want to see you cry like a little bitch, Gersh
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how about looking him in the eye when you do it rather than sacking him by phone?”
HT Clarice Feldman
[TheFederalist] It seems Nellie Ohr was well aware the National Security Agency can intercept and store every communication on the Internet. Did that affect her decision to become a ham radio operator?
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...Smart call.
Mike
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Nellie and Bruce Ohr, difficult to decipher their motive, or is it ?
First perfected by British intelligence (yes, British Intelligence), a HAM radio can be paired to a laptop, to send encrypted files, such as text messages, documents, and videos across the globe through was is referred to as (difficult to detect and monitor) "Burst Transmissions."
#3
Ham operators nowadays routinely link computers to their radios to send/receive digital signals. Embedding encrypted messages into these signals should be very easy to do & rather hard to detect.
[Business Insider] Former CIA director John Brennan delivered a brutal assessment of President Donald Trump on Friday, capping off the most tumultuous week the administration has seen in months.
Trump is "unstable, inept, inexperienced, and also unethical," Brennan said in an interview with MSNBC.
Brennan said he has gone from being "angry" at Trump for his words and actions, to a state of "deep worry and concern" about what he described as a lack of leadership in the White House.
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Has Brennan explained why he abandoned civilization for Islam? How much was he paid?
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03/03/2018 7:54 Comments ||
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It will someday be discovered that this piece of kak and his Soetoro and Clinton cohorts are responsible for much of the Donald Trump - Russian hysteria, disinformation, and 2016 presidential election difficulties.
The intelligence community electronic signals monitoring, backstopping, cover-for-action, and blatant denial are simply too obvious and overwhelming.
#6
Did you know that Brennan voted for a Communist Party candidate? Yup. In 1976. In the middle of the Cold War. When Russia was 100 times the threat it is today.
https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/15/politics/john-brennan-cia-communist-vote/index.html
Did you know Brennan just signed a contract with NBC News and MSNBC? Yup. Right from the intelligence agencies into the mainstream media. And people claim there's no swamp that needs draining.
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 ||
03/03/2018 8:20 Comments ||
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Running a successful clandestine intelligence operation (or a Deep State) depends upon two, no three things, funding, access, and source control.
Soetoro and Clinton are sources Brennan could control. Trump is not. Unlike Soetoro and Clinton, Brennan has nothing on Trump. Try as he and others may, they have nothing on Trump. He (Trump) is an unintended consequence of a national election 'gone bad' for the Deep State. It could not be much simpler.
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...capping off the most tumultuous week the administration has seen in months.
In which the same types of criticism are rehashed in a widespread manner every two or three months by the national media. It's as if everyone's reading off the same scheduler or something.
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03/03/2018 8:58 Comments ||
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In the fourth grade, I used to tell insulters, "It takes one to know one".
Nowadays, I believe one word says the same thing - "projection".
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Brennan is going down over Seith Rich who will be smiling down when it happens. It's only fair that NSA wiretaps end up proving this as*hat's criminal activities.
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At least Trump isn't a lying, conniving, traitorous piece of shit like you are, John. I've known dozens of people in the CIA. Most of them are far more intelligent, honest, and conscientious than you were at four.
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[American Thinker] Government in the name of order, control, efficiency, organization, the greatest good for the greatest number, solidarity, social justice, and safety is instead ruling over a society that is increasingly disordered, crime-ridden, unjust, and disturbed to an extreme. A word that describes the direction of our acceleration through space and time is anarchy.
The momentum toward anarchy began with the move toward federal government expansion. During Woodrow Wilson's presidency, we began to see the implementation of what is now called the administrative state. This was helped along by our participation in WWI, which created the need for more governmental controls. This was followed by the massive Keynesian demand-side economics implemented by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New Deal, and WWII.
Regulation grows by supposedly "meeting a need," but meeting a need leads from that point into greater regimentation. Greater regimentation means a suppression of individual freedom. This suppression produces a reaction that is anarchy. Therefore, we must be careful whenever we expand government with the premise that we are "meeting a need."
For example, more students are getting a college education, but the burdens are also increasing as ever greater numbers depend on student loans to get a college education (students often work, but working one's way through college has become less and less feasible). This in turn has given rise to a demand for free higher education. That demand is growing, as we see from Bernie Sanders's successes in the last election cycle, and Andrew Cuomo was able to push through a free tuition plan for public colleges in New York State. This free tuition is anything but a support for freedom, for indeed, it requires that students take a certain minimum number of credits and that they be full-time. It will gradually mean greater and greater control by the government over what is taught and what is required study for each student. Thus, easing the financial burden will increase other burdens and curtail freedom of thought and freedom of choice.
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Anarchy has been sold as "good clean fun" in the academy and in media for some time now. When it stops being fun for a particular group, that will change quickly. But not in the ways they expect...
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Great for those who crave excitement and have a penchant for defying authority, which seems to include most of us.
[Daily Caller] Over at the Acton Institute blog, Joe Carter published a post yesterday based on arguments before the Supreme Court which took place earlier this week. As Carter explains, the case before the Court involved the wearing of allegedly politicized clothing at a polling place:
Justice Alito decided to highlight just how arbitrary the standard was during oral arguments by asking attorney Daniel Rogan, who was defending the statute for the state of Minnesota, to classify whether a series of other images would be allowable or forbidden under the law. You’ll quickly notice a pattern forming. Every progressive political symbol is deemed allowable while every conservative symbol is deemed forbidden:
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January 2010 - Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. responded to President Obama's criticism Wednesday night's (State of The Union) of a Supreme Court decision last week by appearing to mouth the words "not true, not true."
[Daily Caller] During an interview with Fox News host and Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson, Bongino pointed out the radical difference gun laws have with other laws on the books.
"This is what people have to understand, get this through your heads and never forget it," Bongino started. "There are two parallel tracks for gun owners ‐ for liberals, let’s do this slow, here’s one, here’s two."
"On the first track you have legal gun owners: you have to go through a legal background check, fill out a 4473, you can’t be a prohibited possessor," he explained. "Then you have track number two: people who steal them and buy them on the black market."
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
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.
[Business Insider] Former CIA director John Brennan delivered a brutal assessment of President Donald Trump on Friday, capping off the most tumultuous week the administration has seen in months.
[American Thinker] Government in the name of order, control, efficiency, organization, the greatest good for the greatest number, solidarity, social justice, and safety is instead ruling over a society that is increasingly disordered, crime-ridden, unjust, and disturbed to an extreme. A word that describes the direction of our acceleration through space and time is anarchy.
[Daily Caller] During an interview with Fox News host and Daily Caller co-founder Tucker Carlson, Bongino pointed out the radical difference gun laws have with other laws on the books.
