Starvin Larry

I guess some of us remember a while back how Hillary Clinton facilitated the sale and control of at least 20% of American uranium to the Russians. The Clintons pulled in around $140 million from the deal.

Well, coincidently Obama and company are shutting down the last uranium enrichment plant in the United States. And Obama has assured Iran will get to enrich their own uranium achieving their goal of building nuclear weapons. Makes me wonder just how strong Obama is making America’s readiness, with the possibility of aggression from our enemies?

How closely have you read the 4473?

All of us have filled out the 4473 form so many times that we could pretty much recite it and fill it out blind folded. But have you actually bothered to read the stuff after you sign and date 16 and 17?

A co-worker was perusing the later section, that hardly anyone reads, and found two interesting things in the 4473 that dispel misconceptions regarding firearm sales.

First there is the misconception regarding gifting a firearm. For a long time I have heard, and mistakenly believed, that gifting a firearm is only allowed between parent and offspring or between spouses. This is completely false. Apparently you can gift a gun to anyone you want. Take a look at the screen cap of the section explaining 11a “transferee/buyer”.

Did you catch the subtle nuance between the two examples? You cannot buy a gun on BEHALF…

One way to unmask people who are nowhere near as smart as they think they are is to put them in a conversation with someone who is actually smart. From James Howard Kunstler at kunstler.com:

Did Charlie Rose look like a fucking idiot last night on 60-Minutes, or what, asking Vladimir Putin how he could know for sure that the US was behind the 2014 Ukraine coup against President Viktor Yanukovych? Maybe the idiots are the 60-Minutes producers and fluffers who are supposed to prep Charlie’s questions. Putin seemed startled and amused by this one on Ukraine: how could he know for sure?

Well, gosh, because Ukraine was virtually a province of Russia in one form or another for hundreds of years, and Russia has a potent intelligence service (formerly called the KGB) that had assets and connections threaded through Ukrainian society like the rhizomorphs of the fungus Armillaria solidipes…