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Gun seller may sue Everytown for Gun Safety for defamation

Posted: February 6, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Imagine that-Bloomberg’s minions lying right before they attempt to get anti-gun legislation introduced and passed.

Then there’s this..In Vermont, an online petition asking Attorney General William Sorrell to investigate the tactics used by Everytown for Gun Safety has garnered more than 500 signatures in five days.  Only 500 signatures???!!!!  Bloomberg and his millionaire and billionaire pals,along with his minions which help introduce this bullshit on state’s ballots and run his anti-gun front groups Everytown and Moms are going to go state by state and get the same shit enacted as they did in Washington state if gun owners don’t get off their asses and fight this bullshit.

MOUNT HOLLY — A firearms dealer accused by a gun safety group of not conducting background checks is mulling a lawsuit for defamation of character.

Bobby Richards is the owner and operator of Crossfire Arms, an online firearms business based in Mount Holly, about 15 miles southeast of Rutland. His business was identified in a recent report by the advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety — which has since retracted some of its claims — as an unlicensed dealer that sells guns to criminals.

That is not the case, according to Richards and his attorney, Rachel Baird.

“In the blatantly false and malicious report distributed to a worldwide audience, Everytown misappropriated Crossfire Arms’ logo and defamed its owner Bobby Richards and Crossfire Arms by characterizing both as vehicles for the unlicensed sale of firearms to felons, fugitives from justice, domestic violence abusers and other unspecified criminals,” reads a statement released by Crossfire Arms.

According to Baird, Richards has a federal firearms license and conducts the background checks required under federal law.

“Bobby and I are exploring his claims that will focus primarily on the torts of slander and defamation, including placing Bobby and Crossfire Arms in a false light,” Baird said.

On its website, Crossfire Arms states, “Crossfire Arms, LLC is a licensed FFL dealer. In accordance with federal and state laws, we cannot ship a firearm directly to an individual or to a location that does not hold an FFL (Federal Firearms License).”

“Firearms will only be shipped to another licensed gun dealer within the United States — this can be your local gun shop, pawn shop, sporting goods store, etc,” the website states. “The receiving gun dealer then handles your background check and the transfer of the firearm to you.”

The report from Everytown for Gun Safety comes as state lawmakers consider a bill to tighten the laws surrounding criminal background checks.

http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20150203/NEWS03/702039956

Chinese herdsman stumbles onto a 17-pound gold nugget

Posted: February 5, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Imagine it! You’re walking along and nearly trip over a 17-pound (7.85 kilograms) gold nugget. File that under a most improbable gold bonanza.

But that’s exactly how it played out for one lucky sun-of-a-gun farmer in China.

Berek Sawut, a Kazak herdsman from Qinghe County in Altay Prefecture told Chinese news agency Xinhua that he found the giant nugget “practically lying on bare ground.” The area is in China’s far western Xinjiang Uygur region.

That gold nugget, assuming it’s at least 80% pure, would be worth 1.6 million yuan ($255,313 U.S. dollars), says Xinhua, which also points out that a 1.84 kilogram nugget was discovered in the region in 2010. Gold GCJ5, -0.04%  for April delivery was trading at $1,261 an ounce on Thursday.

The odds of such a thing happening, of course, are not as rare as, say, finding 1,400 rare U.S. gold coins practically in your backyard. And yes, that actually happened to one lucky California couple a year ago.

It can’t be confirmed if this is indeed it, but this supposed image of that China nugget was floating around earlier on Twitter.

Oddly enough, on Feb. 5, 1869, the world’s biggest alluvial gold nugget (i.e., gold deposited by water) was found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia. Dubbed the ‘Welcome Stranger,’ the nugget had a gross weight of 109.59 kilograms, and had to be broken into three pieces because there were no scales large enough to weigh it, according to Wikipedia.

Last month thieves smashed an SUV into a Wells Fargo museum in downtown San Francisco early Tuesday and made off with gold nuggets and ore worth more than $12,000.

But that’s not a strategy we’d recommend in trying to get your own chunk of gold.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/chinese-herdsman-stumbles-onto-a-17-pound-gold-nugget-2015-02-05?siteid=yhoof2

TSA Earns Gestapo Nickname

Posted: February 5, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Man held 20 hours after asking to file TSA complaint

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A traveler detained for more than 20 hours after a search of energy bars and a sports watch in his carry-on bag at an airport has sued the Transportation Security Administration and accused a TSA supervisor of lying.

Architect and runner Roger Vanderklok said he was arrested after asking TSA workers how to file a complaint. He said he spent nearly a day in a holding cell without being questioned by police or given the chance to call his wife, who was frantic.

“It’s difficult to lose control of your existence. That’s what it amounts to,” Vanderklok said Wednesday. “I was absolutely terrified.”

According to Vanderklok, the TSA supervisor lied to police and again in court when he said the 58-year-old runner had made a verbal threat during the January 2013 security check at Philadelphia International Airport. Vanderklok was on his way to Miami for a half-marathon.

The TSA said it was concerned about the gear in his bag: what turned out to be the watch and the power bars, wrapped in a small PVC pipe for protection. Electronics and “organic mass” can be used to make bombs, TSA Supervisor Charles Kieser testified at an April 2013 criminal trial.

But Vanderklok’s lawyer, Thomas Malone, argued in court: “I don’t think PowerBars are consistent with bombings, nor are watches.”

A judge quickly dismissed threat charges against Vanderklok, who filed his lawsuit Jan. 23, seeking unspecified damages for what he considers a retaliatory arrest. The Philadelphia Daily News first reported on the lawsuit Wednesday.

Malone doesn’t challenge the TSA’s effort to investigate the items in the carry-on but says airport security footage contradicts Kieser’s testimony.

Kieser testified an agitated Vanderklok raised his hands and repeatedly pointed a finger at his face.

“The passenger made a bomb threat to me,” Kieser testified, according to a transcript. “(He said) I’ll bring a bomb through here any day that I want … and you’ll never find it.”

Vanderklok insists he said nothing about a bomb. The security video shows him standing calmly with his arms in front of him holding a laptop, his lawsuit says.

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The TSA does not comment on pending lawsuits, a spokesman said. Kieser does not appear to have a listed phone number.

The city’s chief deputy solicitor, Craig Straw, said his office had not seen the lawsuit.

http://news.yahoo.com/suit-man-held-20-hours-asking-file-tsa-210427933.html

New Mexico: Anti-Gun House Bill 44 to Receive Public Hearing on Saturday, February 7

Posted: February 5, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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On Saturday at 2:00 p.m., in Room 307 of the State Capitol, the House Regulatory & Public Affairs Committee will hold a public hearing on NRA-opposed House Bill 44, sponsored by anti-gun state Representative Miguel Garcia (D-ABQ).  HB 44 criminalizes non-dealer firearm transfers at gun shows, which would lead to the end of these events as we know them.  Misguided gun control advocates will be in Santa Fe to support this deeply flawed measure, so please attend this hearing to show your opposition.

HB 44 is just the first step toward criminalizing ALL private transfers of firearms; in fact, the first version of this bill from the 2013 session did just that.  No background check legislation will ever be “universal” since criminals simply ignore the law.

Why You Should Oppose HB 44

It’s an ineffective crime control proposal.  In April of 2013, PoliceOne conducted a national survey of 15,000 active and retired law enforcement officers of all ranks and department sizes on the topics of gun & crime control.  Nearly 80 percent said that a prohibition on private non-dealer transfers of firearms between individuals would not reduce violent crime.

Current laws are not being enforced.  According to a 2012 report to the U.S. Department of Justice, more than 72,000 people were turned down on a gun purchase in 2010 because they didn’t clear a background check.  Only 44 of those cases – or just .06 percent – were prosecuted.  A 2013 study by Syracuse University showed that gun prosecutions had hit a decade low, down 40 percent from 2004.  Existing laws are not even being enforced and proponents are calling for expanding background checks to cover private firearms transactions.

Gun shows aren’t a source of crime guns.  A U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics survey of state prison inmates who had used or possessed firearms in the course of committing their crimes found that 79 percent acquired their firearms from “street/illegal sources” or “friends and family.”  This includes theft of firearms, black market purchases of stolen firearms and straw purchases.  Only 1.7 percent obtained a firearm at a gun show.

It may lead to gun registration. Most importantly, because a January 2013 internal U.S. Department of Justice memorandum summarizing so-called “gun violence” prevention strategies stated that the effectiveness of “universal background checks” depends on “requiring gun registration.”  Even though HB 44 currently contains prohibitions on the development of a state or local registry of gun buyers, supporters of the bill are likely to eventually claim the need to repeal these important protections in order to enforce its provisions.

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20150204/new-mexico-anti-gun-house-bill-44-to-receive-public-hearing-on-saturday-february-7

How Reality TV Is Teaching Us to Accept the American Police State, by John W. Whitehead

Posted: February 4, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Robert Gore's avatarSTRAIGHT LINE LOGIC

From John W. Whitehead, a guest post at theburningplatform.com:

“Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beasts, medals, pictures, and other such opiates, these were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their liberty, the instruments of tyranny. By these practices and enticements the ancient dictators so successfully lulled their subjects under the yoke, that the stupefied peoples, fascinated by the pastimes and vain pleasures flashed before their eyes, learned subservience as naively, but not so creditably, as little children learn to read by looking at bright picture books.”—Etienne de La Boétie, “The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude: How Do Tyrants Secure Cooperation?” (1548)

Americans love their reality TV shows—the drama, the insults, the bullying, the callousness, the damaged relationships delivered through the lens of a surveillance camera—and there’s no shortage of such dehumanizing spectacles to be found on or off screen, whether it’s Cops, Real Housewives or the heavy-handed…

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SHTF Home Defense

Posted: February 4, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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From Forward Observer Magazine…

SHTF Home Defense: Part 1 – Defending the Perimeter

https://readfomag.com/2015/02/shtf-home-defense-part-1-defending-the-perimeter/

SHTF Home Defense: Part 2 – Defending the Home

https://readfomag.com/2015/02/shtf-home-defense-part-2-defending-the-home/

Read.

Learn.

Train.

Do More PT !

A Reader Sends: For All You Mechanics

Posted: February 4, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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To the Citizens of Washington State and Their American Countrymen

Posted: February 3, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Unless you want to see this Bloomberg and his wealthy minions’ bought and paid for anti-gun bullshit enacted in your state-either go to stand with these guys-or kick ’em a few $$$ for bail money.

Washington state was only the first of many states these douchenozzles plan to get this or similar horsepucky enacted in-the next state could be the one YOU live in-support these guys any way you can.

Resist-any way you can-every way you can.

This mouse ain’t just giving up-neither should you…

Buppert: Cops As Armed Leninists

Posted: February 3, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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What’s in Those Supplements?

Posted: February 3, 2015 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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GNC's Herbal Plus brand of garlic does contain garlic DNA.

The New York State attorney general’s office accused four national retailers on Monday of selling dietary supplements that were fraudulent and in many cases contaminated with unlisted ingredients.

The authorities said they had run tests on popular store brands of herbal supplements at the retailers — Walmart, Walgreens, Target and GNC — which showed that roughly four out of five of the products contained none of the herbs listed on their labels. In many cases, the authorities said, the supplements contained little more than cheap fillers like rice and house plants, or substances that could be hazardous to people with food allergies.

At GNC, for example, the agency found that five out of six samples from the company’s signature “Herbal Plus” brand of supplements “were either unrecognizable or a substance other than what they claimed to be.” In pills labeled ginkgo biloba, the agency found only rice, asparagus and spruce, an ornamental plant commonly used for Christmas decorations.

At Target, the agency tested six herbal products from its popular “Up and Up” store brand of supplements. Three out of six – including ginkgo biloba, St. John’s wort and valerian root, a sleep aid – tested negative for the herbs listed on their labels. But the agency did find that the pills contained powdered rice, beans, peas and wild carrots.

Here are the products that were analyzed by the attorney general, along with the test results that were described in cease-and-desist letters that the agency sent to the four retailers.

From GNC, Herbal Plus brand:

Gingko Biloba:

  • No gingko biloba found
  • Did detect allium (garlic), rice, spruce and asparagus

St. John’s Wort

  • No St. John’s Wort found
  • Did detect allium (garlic), rice and dracaena (a tropical houseplant)

Ginseng

  • No ginseng found
  • Did detect rice, dracaena, pine, wheat/grass and citrus

Garlic

  • Contained garlic

Echinacea

  • No echinacea found
  • Did detect rice in some samples

Saw Palmetto

  • One sample contained the clear presence of palmetto
  • Other samples contained a variety of ingredients, including asparagus, rice and primrose

From Target, Up & Up brand

Gingko Biloba

  • No gingko biloba found
  • Found garlic, rice and mung/French bean

St. John’s Wort

  • No St. John’s Wort found
  • Found garlic, rice and dracaena (houseplant)

Garlic

  • Contained garlic
  • One test identified no DNA

Echinacea

  • Most but not all tests detected Echinacea
  • One test identified rice

Saw Palmetto

  • Most tests detected saw palmetto
  • Some tests found no plant DNA

Valerian Root

  • No valerian root found
  • Found allium, bean, asparagus, pea family, rice, wild carrot and saw palmetto

From Walgreens, Finest Nutrition brand

Gingko Biloba

  • No gingko biloba found
  • Did detect rice

St. John’s Wort

  • No St. John’s Wort found
  • Detected garlic, rice and dracaena

Ginseng

  • No ginseng found
  • Detected garlic and rice

Garlic

  • No garlic found
  • Detected palm, dracaena, wheat and rice

Echinacea

  • No echinacea found
  • Identified garlic, rice and daisy

Saw Palmetto

  • Contained saw palmetto

From Walmart, Spring Valley brand

Gingko Biloba

  • No gingko biloba found
  • Found rice, dracaena, mustard, wheat and radish

St. John’s Wort

  • No St. John’s Wort found
  • Detected garlic, rice and cassava

Ginseng

  • No ginseng found
  • Found rice, dracaena, pine, wheat/grass and citrus

Garlic

  • One sample showed small amounts of garlic
  • Found rice, pine, palm, dracaena and wheat

Echinacea

  • No echinacea or plant material found

Saw Palmetto

The multi- billion dollar supplement industry is the modern day equivalent of the traveling snake oil salesmen of the past,who would travel from town to town with a wagon full of bottles of “medicine” that they claimed would cure just about everything. Usually,the stuff they sold contained opium,morphine,or cocaine,so the customer got stoned from the “medicine” even though it didn’t cure anything-except maybe a toothache or headache.

People are still searching for some kind of magic pill to cure them,when in most cases their ailments can be traced to the person not exercising,or not eating right,or not getting enough rest,or some combination of the three.

As long as you eat a balanced diet,stay away from excessive intake of sugars,fats,oils,and excessive carb intake-you should not need supplements.

Some people,who are recovering from diseases or surgeries may need extra vitamins/minerals,which you can get from a decent multi-vitamin.

You are much better off getting all of your nutrients from foods than you are relying on supplements to make up for a poor diet or lack of exercise.

The modern day snake oil salesmen are no different than the snake oil salesmen from the old days-they just have better marketing gimmicks today.

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